CVE-2004-0481: The logging feature in kcms_configure in the KCMS package on Solaris 8 and 9, and possibly other versions, allows local users to corrupt…
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 8/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.28% (FIRST EPSS).
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
The logging feature in kcms_configure in the KCMS package on Solaris 8 and 9, and possibly other versions, allows local users to corrupt arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the KCS_ClogFile file.
- Published
- Feb 23, 2005
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.2% · 21th percentile
- CWE
- —
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Action score
8
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 8 / 40 · 2.1 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.2%
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Affected versions
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- sun solaris8.0
- sun solaris9.0
- sun sunos5.8
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Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2004-2686Dec 31, 2004 · Directory traversal vulnerability in the vfs_getvfssw function in Solaris 2.6, 7, 8, and 9 allows local users to load arbitrary kernel…28Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2005-0447Feb 15, 2005 · Solaris 7, 8, and 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) via a flood of certain ARP packets.20Monitor
- Later →CVE-2004-0791Apr 12, 2005 · Multiple TCP/IP and ICMP implementations allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (network throughput reduction for TCP…26Monitor
Remediation
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Exploit status
No known public exploit
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Research context
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Timeline
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Technical details
Attack conditions
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- P · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- none
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Confidentiality impact
- None
- Integrity impact
- P
- Availability impact
- None
Weakness class (CWE)
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CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
nvd-primary
Attack context
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Change log (0)
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References
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