World-writable permissions in CuteNews 1.3.6 and other versions allow for unauthorized news manipulation and potential privilege escalation

CVE-2004-2615 · MEDIUM Severity

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The documentation for CuteNews 1.3.6 and possibly other versions specifies that files under cutenews/data must be manually given world-writable permissions, which allows local users to insert false news, delete news, and possibly gain privileges or have other unknown impact.

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