CVE-2004-2615 — The documentation for CuteNews 1.3.6 and possibly other versions specifies that files under cutenews/data must be manually given world-writable permissions, which allows local users to insert false news, delete news, and possibly gain privileges or have other unknown impact

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The documentation for CuteNews 1.3.6 and possibly other versions specifies that files under cutenews/data must be manually given world-writable permissions, which allows local users to insert false news, delete news, and possibly gain privileges or have other unknown impact

Published Dec 4, 2005

4.6

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.33%

Description

The documentation for CuteNews 1.3.6 and possibly other versions specifies that files under cutenews/data must be manually given world-writable permissions, which allows local users to insert false news, delete news, and possibly gain privileges or have other unknown impact.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.33% 0.00331

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

EPSS probability 0.00331

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	0.33% (0.00331)	23.93th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.33% (0.00331)	24.68th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.05% (0.00051)	13.16th	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	0.95% (0.00950)	32.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.95% (0.00950)	30.63th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.95% (0.00950)	28.61th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.95% (0.00950)	13.46th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (4)

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-08/0396.html
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQVendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1011099
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.osvdb.org/9385
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17161
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-08/0396.html		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQVendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1011099		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.osvdb.org/9385		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17161		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Dec 4, 2005

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved Dec 4, 2005

Link CVE-2004-2615

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2004-2615

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2004-2615