CVE-2004-0690

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Summary

CVECVE-2004-0690
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2004-09-28 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionThe DCOPServer in KDE 3.2.3 and earlier allows local users to gain unauthorized access via a symlink attack on DCOP files in the /tmp directory.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.6 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Kde Kde 3.2.1 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
'KDE Security Advisories: Temporary File and Konqueror Frame Injection Vulnerabilities' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
Home - Conectiva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 distro.conectiva.com.br
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
KDE DCOPServer Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Secunia - Advisories - KDE Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Advisories - Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- kdebase, kdelibs: Multiple security issues af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#330638 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20040811-2.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kde.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
#261386 - /usr/lib/libkdeinit_dcopserver.so: not using mkstemp, creating temp file unsafely - Debian Bug report logs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.debian.org Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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