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CVE-2004-1445
A race condition in nessus-adduser in Nessus 2.0.11 and possibly earlier versions, if the TMPDIR environment variable is not set, allows…
- 3.7LowCVSS base score
- 0.30%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 77% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 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 | Low3.7 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.30% · top 77% 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 3.7.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- http://www.nessus.org/nessus_2_0.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- nessus-adduser-race-condition(16768) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 12127 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- GLSA-200408-11 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 10784 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-2004-1441 (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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