CVE-2004-0884

N/A Unknown
Published: January 27, 2005 Modified: April 16, 2026
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Description

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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=134657
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Mar/msg00000.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110693126007214&w=2
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-546.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-003.shtml
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-563
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-568
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-05.xml
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:106
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11347
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.trustix.net/errata/2004/0053/
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2137
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17643
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11678
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=134657
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Mar/msg00000.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110693126007214&w=2
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-546.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-003.shtml
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-563
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-568
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-05.xml
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:106
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11347
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.trustix.net/errata/2004/0053/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2137
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17643
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11678
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

28 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
0.1%
19th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Affected Vendors

cyrus conectiva