Vulnerability in Debian Bsdmainutils

CVE-2004-0793

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.

EPSS: 0.006 (43.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Debian Bsdmainutils — versions 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)