CVE-2004-1445 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

A race condition in nessus-adduser in Nessus 2.0.11 and possibly earlier versions, if the TMPDIR environment variable is not set, allows local users to gain privileges.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity High

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00073.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Nessus	Nessus

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:nessus:nessus:2.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:nessus:nessus:2.0.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:nessus:nessus:2.0.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:nessus:nessus:2.0.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:nessus:nessus:2.0.4:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:nessus:nessus:2.0.5:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:nessus:nessus:2.0.6:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:nessus:nessus:2.0.7:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:nessus:nessus:2.0.8:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:nessus:nessus:2.0.9:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:nessus:nessus:2.0.10:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:nessus:nessus:2.0.11:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:nessus:nessus:2.1.0:::::::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2004-1441	A race condition in nessus-adduser in Nessus 2.0.11 and possibly earlier versions, if the TMPDIR environment variable is not set, allows local users to gain privileges.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/12127/
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200408-11.xml
http://www.nessus.org/nessus_2_0.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10784
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16768

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-02-13T05:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-08T00:53:23.835Z

Reserved: 2005-02-13T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2004-1445

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2004-12-31T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2004-1445

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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