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cvs — security advisory
The client for CVS before 1.11 allows a remote malicious CVS server to create arbitrary files using certain RCS diff files that use absolute pathnames during checkouts or updates, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0405.
- Products
- cvs
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1:1.12.5-4
- CVEs
- CVE-2004-0180
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:25 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The client for CVS before 1.11 allows a remote malicious CVS server to create arbitrary files using certain RCS diff files that use absolute pathnames during checkouts or updates, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0405.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2004-0180
cvs
Fixed versions: 1:1.12.5-4
cvs
Fixed versions: 1:1.12.5-4
cvs
Fixed versions: 1:1.12.5-4
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-21T15:47:36.727263936Z",
"provider": "osv",
"upstream": [
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 394040,
"published_at": "2004-06-01T04:00:00+00:00"
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