CVE-2004-1445

Severity Score

7.0

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

A race condition in nessus-adduser in Nessus 2.0.11 and possibly earlier versions, if the TMPDIR environment variable is not set, allows local users to gain privileges.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

High

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2004-12-31 CVE Published
2005-02-13 CVE Reserved
2024-08-08 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CAPEC

References (5)

URL	Tag	Source
http://www.nessus.org/nessus_2_0.html	X_refsource_confirm
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16768	Vdb Entry

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://secunia.com/advisories/12127	2017-07-11
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200408-11.xml	2017-07-11
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10784	2017-07-11

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Nessus Search vendor "Nessus"		Nessus Search vendor "Nessus" for product "Nessus"				2.0 Search vendor "Nessus" for product "Nessus" and version "2.0"		-		Affected
Nessus Search vendor "Nessus"		Nessus Search vendor "Nessus" for product "Nessus"				2.0.1 Search vendor "Nessus" for product "Nessus" and version "2.0.1"		-		Affected
Nessus Search vendor "Nessus"		Nessus Search vendor "Nessus" for product "Nessus"				2.0.2 Search vendor "Nessus" for product "Nessus" and version "2.0.2"		-		Affected
Nessus Search vendor "Nessus"		Nessus Search vendor "Nessus" for product "Nessus"				2.0.3 Search vendor "Nessus" for product "Nessus" and version "2.0.3"		-		Affected
Nessus Search vendor "Nessus"		Nessus Search vendor "Nessus" for product "Nessus"				2.0.4 Search vendor "Nessus" for product "Nessus" and version "2.0.4"		-		Affected
Nessus Search vendor "Nessus"		Nessus Search vendor "Nessus" for product "Nessus"				2.0.5 Search vendor "Nessus" for product "Nessus" and version "2.0.5"		-		Affected
Nessus Search vendor "Nessus"		Nessus Search vendor "Nessus" for product "Nessus"				2.0.6 Search vendor "Nessus" for product "Nessus" and version "2.0.6"		-		Affected
Nessus Search vendor "Nessus"		Nessus Search vendor "Nessus" for product "Nessus"				2.0.7 Search vendor "Nessus" for product "Nessus" and version "2.0.7"		-		Affected
Nessus Search vendor "Nessus"		Nessus Search vendor "Nessus" for product "Nessus"				2.0.8 Search vendor "Nessus" for product "Nessus" and version "2.0.8"		-		Affected
Nessus Search vendor "Nessus"		Nessus Search vendor "Nessus" for product "Nessus"				2.0.9 Search vendor "Nessus" for product "Nessus" and version "2.0.9"		-		Affected
Nessus Search vendor "Nessus"		Nessus Search vendor "Nessus" for product "Nessus"				2.0.10 Search vendor "Nessus" for product "Nessus" and version "2.0.10"		-		Affected
Nessus Search vendor "Nessus"		Nessus Search vendor "Nessus" for product "Nessus"				2.0.11 Search vendor "Nessus" for product "Nessus" and version "2.0.11"		-		Affected
Nessus Search vendor "Nessus"		Nessus Search vendor "Nessus" for product "Nessus"				2.1.0 Search vendor "Nessus" for product "Nessus" and version "2.1.0"		-		Affected