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CVE-2003-1294

CVE information

Published

20 years ago

Last Modified

6 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Low

Impact Analysis

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Description

Xscreensaver before 4.15 creates temporary files insecurely in (1) driver/passwd-kerberos.c, (2) driver/xscreensaver-getimage-video, (3) driver/xscreensaver.kss.in, and the (4) vidwhacker and (5) webcollage screensavers, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Low
Base Score
2.1/10
Exploit Score
3.9/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
None
Integrity Impact
Partial

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:xscreensaver:xscreensaver:4.14_5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:xscreensaver:xscreensaver:4.14_4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:xscreensaver:xscreensaver:4.05_6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:xscreensaver:xscreensaver:4.10_15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:xscreensaver:xscreensaver:4.07_2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:xscreensaver:xscreensaver:4.08_29135cl:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:xscreensaver:xscreensaver:4.11_0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:xscreensaver:xscreensaver:4.14_0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:xscreensaver:xscreensaver:4.05_150:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:xscreensaver:xscreensaver:4.10_8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:xscreensaver:xscreensaver:4.12_58:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:xscreensaver:xscreensaver:4.12_62:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:xscreensaver:xscreensaver:4.05_5cl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:xscreensaver:xscreensaver:4.05_6a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:xscreensaver:xscreensaver:4.14_2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:xscreensaver:xscreensaver:4.09_0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:xscreensaver:xscreensaver:4.10_6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:xscreensaver:xscreensaver:4.10_4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -

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