CVE-2004-0395: Gatos

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The xatitv program in the gatos package does not properly drop root privileges when the configuration file does not exist, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a system call.

Affected products

• Gatos Gatos: version .5 only

Published 2004-12-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.