Description
The client for CVS before 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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Access Vector
- network
- Access Cmplx
- high
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- partial
- Availability
- none
- Weaknesses
- NVD-CWE-Other
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- CVS
- Published
- 6/1/2004
- Last Modified
- 4/3/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
cvs : cvs
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