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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.6

CVE-2004-0107 json

The (1) post and (2) trigger scripts in sysstat 4.0.7 and earlier allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via symlink attacks on tem…

published 2004-03-16 22 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2004-0107

cvss
4.6
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 33%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The (1) post and (2) trigger scripts in sysstat 4.0.7 and earlier allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via symlink attacks on temporary files, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0108.

Patch / fix

  • sysstat Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.0.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2004-0107

  • sysstat RHEL 3 4.0.7-4.EL3.2

red hat advisories RHSA-2004:053

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-2004-0107 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 sysstat 4.0.7-4.EL3.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 sysstat 4.0.7-4.EL3.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 sysstat 4.0.7-4.EL3.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 sysstat 4.0.7-4.EL3.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2004:053
  • Red Hat Linux 9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2004:093

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.