CVE-2004-2133 — Certain third-party packages for CVSup 16.1h, such as SuSE Linux, contain untrusted paths in the ELF RPATH fields of certain executables, which could allow local users to execute arbitrary code by causing cvsup to link against malicious libraries that are created in world-writable directories such as /usr/src/packages

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Certain third-party packages for CVSup 16.1h, such as SuSE Linux, contain untrusted paths in the ELF RPATH fields of certain executables, which could allow local users to execute arbitrary code by causing cvsup to link against malicious libraries that are created in world-writable directories such as /usr/src/packages

Published May 27, 2005

4.6

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.61%

Description

Certain third-party packages for CVSup 16.1h, such as SuSE Linux, contain untrusted paths in the ELF RPATH fields of certain executables, which could allow local users to execute arbitrary code by causing cvsup to link against malicious libraries that are created in world-writable directories such as /usr/src/packages.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.61% 0.00607

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00607

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.61% (0.00607)	47.12th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.61% (0.00607)	44.20th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.08% (0.00078)	20.85th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.59% (0.01592)	75.48th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Mar 4, 2023	1.59% (0.01592)	75.48th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.59% (0.01592)	73.48th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.59% (0.01592)	52.35th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (4)

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2004-q1/0025.html
mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCHExploitVendor Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107539776002450&w=2
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9523
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatchVendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/14994
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2004-q1/0025.html		mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCHExploitVendor Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107539776002450&w=2		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9523		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatchVendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/14994		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published May 27, 2005

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved May 27, 2005

Link CVE-2004-2133

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2004-2133

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2004-2133