CVE-2004-1808: Metamail Corporation Metamail

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

Extcompose in metamail does not verify the output file before writing to it, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Metamail Corporation Metamail: version 2.7 only

Published 2004-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.