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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…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 0.50%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 57% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 29 days later
· 29 days later
Published
- 20 years later
· 20 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.50% · top 57% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
14
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=134657 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20050128 [OpenPKG-SA-2005.004] OpenPKG Security Advisory (sasl) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 2004-0053 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TRUSTIXx_transferred
- P-003 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisorygovernment-resourcex_refsource_CIACx_transferred
- MDKSA-2004:106 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- DSA-568 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- FLSA:2137 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- DSA-563 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- cyrus-sasl-saslpath(17643) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11678 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2005-03-21 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- 11347 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- GLSA-200410-05 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- RHSA-2004:546 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2004-0882 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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