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tripwire — security advisory
Format string vulnerability in Tripwire commercial 4.0.1 and earlier, including 2.4, and open source 2.3.1 and earlier, allows local users to gain privileges via format string specifiers in a file name, which is used in the generation of an email report.
- Products
- tripwire
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.3.1.2.0-2.1
- CVEs
- CVE-2004-0536
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:22 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Format string vulnerability in Tripwire commercial 4.0.1 and earlier, including 2.4, and open source 2.3.1 and earlier, allows local users to gain privileges via format string specifiers in a file name, which is used in the generation of an email report.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2004-0536
tripwire
Fixed versions: 2.3.1.2.0-2.1
tripwire
Fixed versions: 2.3.1.2.0-2.1
tripwire
Fixed versions: 2.3.1.2.0-2.1
Complete source record
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],
"modified": "2026-10-21T15:47:21.849060242Z",
"provider": "osv",
"upstream": [
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"references": [
"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2004-0536"
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 393801,
"published_at": "2004-08-06T04:00:00+00:00"
}