CVE-2004-2778: Gentoo Portage

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Ebuild in Gentoo may change directory and file permissions depending on the order of installed packages, which allows local users to read or write to restricted directories or execute restricted commands via navigating to the affected directories, or executing the affected commands.

Affected products

• Gentoo Portage: any version

Published 2017-06-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.