CVE-2004-0851: Ulrich Callmeier Net-Acct

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The (1) write_list and (2) dump_curr_list functions in Net-Acct before 0.71 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Affected products

• Ulrich Callmeier Net-Acct: version 0.6 only; version 0.7 only; version 0.71 only

Published 2004-09-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.