CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2004-0395

Published: Dec 06, 2004 | Modified: Apr 03, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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The xatitv program in the gatos package does not properly drop root privileges when the configuration file does not exist, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a system call.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
GatosGatos.5 (including).5 (including)
GatosUbuntudapper*
GatosUbuntudevel*
GatosUbuntuedgy*
GatosUbuntufeisty*

References