CVE-2004-1833: Borland Software Interbase

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The admin.ib file in Borland Interbase 7.1 for Linux has default world writable permissions, which allows local users to gain database administrative privileges.

Affected products

• Borland Software Interbase: version 4.0 only; version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.4 only; version 6.5 only; version 7.0 only; …

Published 2004-03-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.