Vulnerability in Gatos

CVE-2004-0395

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.

EPSS: 0.004 (33.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Gatos — versions .5
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Patch, x_refsource_DEBIAN, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)