2.6
CVSSv2

CVE-2004-0180

Published: 01/06/2004 Updated: 03/05/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.6 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 4.9
VMScore: 231
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

The client for CVS prior to 1.11 allows a remote malicious CVS server to create arbitrary files using certain RCS diff files that use absolute pathnames during checkouts or updates, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0405.

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Two vulnerabilities have been discovered and fixed in CVS: CAN-2004-0180 Sebastian Krahmer discovered a vulnerability whereby a malicious CVS pserver could create arbitrary files on the client system during an update or checkout operation, by supplying absolute pathnames in RCS diffs CAN-2004-0405 Derek Robert Price discovered a vulnerabilit ...