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CVE-2004-1058
Race condition in Linux kernel 2.6 allows local users to read the environment variables of another process that is still spawning via…
- 1.2LowCVSS base score
- 0.39%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 67% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Race condition in Linux kernel 2.6 allows local users to read the environment variables of another process that is still spawning via /proc/.../cmdline.
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 | Low1.2 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.39% · top 67% 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: Low 1.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
18
- 18684 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 19038 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- MDKSA-2005:022 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- linux-spawning-race-condition(17151) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 19369 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 21476 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 11937 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- DSA-1018 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 11052 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- GLSA-200408-24 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 19607 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2006:0190 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10427 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2006:012 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-38-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- FLSA:152532 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- RHSA-2005:293 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2006:0191 (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-2004-1056 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2004-1058)Record last updated .