Vulnerability Report

CVE-2004-1895

Title: SuSE YaST Online Update arbitrary file overwrite via symlink

Arbitrary File Overwrite

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2004-1895.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Dec 31, 2004

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.10%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2004-1895: YaST Online Update (YOU) in SuSE 8.2 and 9.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on you-$USER/cookies.

Impacted Vendors

suse 1

novell 1

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-04/0058.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108118395519164&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/11300 http://securitytracker.com/id?1009668 http://www.osvdb.org/4985 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10047 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15731 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-04/0058.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108118395519164&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/11300 http://securitytracker.com/id?1009668 http://www.osvdb.org/4985 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10047 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15731

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-2004-1895 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.

December 31, 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.