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Race condition in IMWheel 1.0.0pre11 and earlier, when...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Apr 29, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 30, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 31, 2004
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 29, 2022
Last updated Jan 30, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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(33rd percentile)

Weaknesses

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. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2004-2698

GHSA ID

GHSA-64gr-p8q7-hc37

Source code

No known source code

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