Vulnerability Report

CVE-2004-0559

Title: Usermin maketemp.pl arbitrary file overwrite via symlink

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2004-0559.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Oct 20, 2004

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.36%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2004-0559: The maketemp.pl script in Usermin 1.070 and 1.080 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files at install time via a symlink attack on the /tmp/.usermin directory.

Impacted Vendors

webmin 1

usermin 1

gentoo 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/12488/ http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200409-15.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11153 http://www.webmin.com/uchanges-1.089.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17299 http://secunia.com/advisories/12488/ http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200409-15.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11153 http://www.webmin.com/uchanges-1.089.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17299

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2004-0559 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 20, 2004 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.