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CVE-2004-1391· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

Untrusted execution path vulnerability in the PPPoE daemon (PPPoEd) in QNX RTP 6.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary programs by modif

Untrusted execution path vulnerability in the PPPoE daemon (PPPoEd) in QNX RTP 6.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary programs by modifying the PATH environment variable to point to a malicious mount program.

MediumCVSS 4.6 · v2.0—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Dec 31, 2004
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
0.6% · 45th percentile
CWE
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Action score

18

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
18 / 40 · 4.6 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.6%

Affected systems

VendorProduct
qnxrtos
qnxrtp

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • qnx rtos6.1.0
  • qnx rtos6.1.0a
  • qnx rtos6.2.0
  • qnx rtos6.2.1a
  • qnx rtos6.2.1b
  • qnx rtos6.3.0
  • qnx rtp6.1

Same product

qnx: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2004-1390Multiple buffer overflows in the PPPoE daemon (PPPoEd) in QNX RTP 6.1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long argument t
    42Plan
  • CVE-2006-0623QNX Neutrino RTOS 6.3.0 ships /etc/rc.d/rc.local with world-writable permissions, which allows local users to modify the file and execute ar
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2006-0621Multiple buffer overflows in QNX Neutrino RTOS 6.2.0 allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a long first argument to the (1) su or
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2005-1528Untrusted search path vulnerability in the crttrap command in QNX Neutrino RTOS 6.2.1 allows local users to load arbitrary libraries via a L
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2002-2040The (1) phrafx and (2) phgrafx-startup programs in QNX realtime operating system (RTOS) 4.25 and 6.1.0 do not properly drop privileges befor
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2002-2041Multiple buffer overflows in realtime operating system (RTOS) 6.1.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via (1) a long ABLANG envir
    28Monitor

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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No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

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Patch and commit links

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Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
P · data can be read
Integrity
P · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
P · the service can be disrupted
Attack complexity
Low
Confidentiality impact
P
Integrity impact
P
Availability impact
P

Weakness class (CWE)

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CVSS vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

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References

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