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CVE-2004-2698

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.9)—💥 Exploit

Race condition in IMWheel 1.0.0pre11 and earlier, when running with the -k option, allows local users to cause a denial of service (IMWheel crash) and possibly modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the imwheel.pid file.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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💥 Public exploits

Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.

Affected technologies (1)

Imwheel — Imwheel

CWEs

References

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