CVE-2004-2698
Race condition in IMWheel 1.0.0pre11 and earlier, when running with the -k option, allows local users to cause a denial of service…
- 6.9MediumCVSS base score
- 0.47%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 59% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Race condition in IMWheel 1.0.0pre11 and earlier, when running with the -k option, allows local users to cause a denial of service (IMWheel crash) and possibly modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the imwheel.pid file.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- IMWheel 1.0 - Predictable Temporary File Creation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 24398local, linuxpublished 23 Aug 2004Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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Published
- 17 years later
· 17 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 | Medium6.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.47% · top 59% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- imwheel-race-condition(17082) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1011049 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 12349 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 11008 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.caughq.org/advisories/CAU-2004-0002.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://imwheel.sourceforge.net/files/DEVELOPMENT.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20040820 CAU-2004-0002 - imwheel Predictable PidFile Name Race Condition (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 9111 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_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-2004-2688 (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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