Vulnerability Report

CVE-2004-0884

RCE

Title: Cyrus-SASL libraries SASL_PATH arbitrary code execution

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2004-0884.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jan 27, 2005

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.06%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2004-0884: The (1) libsasl and (2) libsasl2 libraries in Cyrus-SASL 2.1.18 and earlier trust the SASL_PATH environment variable to find all available SASL plug-ins, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by modifying the SASL_PATH to point to malicious programs.

Impacted Vendors

cyrus 1

Reference Links

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=134657 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Mar/msg00000.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110693126007214&w=2 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-546.html http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-003.shtml http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-563 http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-568 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-05.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:106 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11347 http://www.trustix.net/errata/2004/0053/ https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2137 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17643 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11678 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=134657 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Mar/msg00000.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110693126007214&w=2 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-546.html http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-003.shtml http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-563 http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-568 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-05.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:106 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11347 http://www.trustix.net/errata/2004/0053/ https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2137 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17643 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11678

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2004-0884 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 27, 2005 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:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.