CVE-2004-1167: Gentoo Mirrorselect

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

mirrorselect before 0.89 creates temporary files in a world-writable location with predictable file names, which allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Gentoo Mirrorselect: version 0.80 only; version 0.81 only; version 0.82 only; version 0.83 only; version 0.84 only; version 0.85 only; …

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