CVE-2004-2698

Published: Dec 31, 2004Modified: Apr 16, 2026

6.9

Vector

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

Exploitability: 3.4 / Impact: 10.0

Source: NVD

Description

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.

Affected (1)

Products: Imwheel: Imwheel

Imwheel

1 product

Imwheel

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Imwheel Imwheel	Up to 1.0.0pre11

Related CWEs

CWE-362

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently.

References (16)

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-08/0914.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://imwheel.sourceforge.net/files/DEVELOPMENT.txt

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/12349

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://securitytracker.com/id?1011049

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.caughq.org/advisories/CAU-2004-0002.txt

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.osvdb.org/9111

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11008

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17082

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-08/0914.html