Vulnerability CVE-2004-1167
Published: 2005-01-10   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
mirrorselect before 0.89 creates temporary files in a world-writable location with predictable file names, which allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Gentoo -> Mirrorselect 

 References:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-05.xml
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/18382
http://secunia.com/advisories/13392/
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