CVE detail
CVE-2003-0704 — CVE-2003-0704
Published 2003-09-17 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor kismac · Product kismac · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0035
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
28.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
Description
KisMAC before 0.05d trusts user-supplied variables when chown'ing files or directories, which allows local users to gain privileges via the $DRIVER_KEXT environment variable in (1) viha_driver.sh, (2) macjack_load.sh, (3) airojack_load.sh, (4) setuid_enable.sh, (5) setuid_disable.sh, and using a "similar technique" for (6) viha_prep.sh and (7) viha_unprep.sh.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References