CVE-2004-0647: Shorewall

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

shorewall 1.4.10c and earlier, and 2.0.x before 2.0.3a, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the chains-$$ temporary file.

Affected products

• Shorewall Shorewall: version 1.4 only; version 1.4.1 only; version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.3 only; version 1.4.3a only; version 1.4.4 only; …

Published 2004-08-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.