CVE-2004-1162: Gentoo Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The unison command in scponly before 4.0 does not properly restrict programs that can be run, which could allow remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions and execute arbitrary programs via the (1) -rshcmd or (2) -sshcmd flags.

Affected products

• Gentoo Linux: any version
• Scponly Scponly: version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only; version 2.3 only; version 2.4 only; version 3.0 only; version 3.5 only; …

Published 2005-01-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.