Vulnerability in Metamail Corporation
CVE-2004-1808
Extcompose in metamail does not verify the output file before writing to it, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
EPSS: 0.003 (25.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Metamail_corporation Metamail — versions 2.7
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)