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high 7.2

CVE-2004-0884 json

The (1) libsasl and (2) libsasl2 libraries in Cyrus-SASL 2.1.18 and earlier trust the SASL_PATH environment variable to find all available…

published 2004-10-21 22 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2004-0882

cvss
7.2
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 43%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The (1) libsasl and (2) libsasl2 libraries in Cyrus-SASL 2.1.18 and earlier trust the SASL_PATH environment variable to find all available SASL plug-ins, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by modifying the SASL_PATH to point to malicious programs.

Patch / fix

  • cyrus-sasl2 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.1.19-1.3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2004-0884

  • cyrus-sasl RHEL 3 2.1.15-10
  • cyrus-sasl-md5 RHEL 3 2.1.15-10
  • cyrus-sasl-plain RHEL 3 2.1.15-10
  • cyrus-sasl-gssapi RHEL 3 2.1.15-10

red hat advisories RHSA-2004:546

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2004-0884 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 cyrus-sasl 2.1.15-10, cyrus-sasl-md5 2.1.15-10, cyrus-sasl-plain 2.1.15-10, cyrus-sasl-gssapi 2.1.15-10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 cyrus-sasl 2.1.15-10, cyrus-sasl-md5 2.1.15-10, cyrus-sasl-plain 2.1.15-10, cyrus-sasl-gssapi 2.1.15-10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 cyrus-sasl 2.1.15-10, cyrus-sasl-md5 2.1.15-10, cyrus-sasl-plain 2.1.15-10, cyrus-sasl-gssapi 2.1.15-10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 cyrus-sasl 2.1.15-10, cyrus-sasl-md5 2.1.15-10, cyrus-sasl-plain 2.1.15-10, cyrus-sasl-gssapi 2.1.15-10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2004:546

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Exploit prediction

0.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 43% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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