CVE-2004-0793 (GCVE-0-2004-0793)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2004-09-14 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 00:31
VLAI
Summary
The calendar program in bsdmainutils 6.0 through 6.0.14 does not drop root privileges when executed with the -a flag, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a calendar event file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11077 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109396230317359&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
Date Public
2004-08-30 00:00
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