CVE-2007-4394

Unspecified vulnerability in a "core clean" cron job created by the findutils-locate package on SUSE Linux 10.0 and 10.1 and Enterprise Server 9 and 10 before 20070810 allows local users to delete of arbitrary files via unknown vectors.

Published: 2007-08-17 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2007-4394 is rated Low Risk (10.8/100): CVSS Low severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.03%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2007-4394

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-03-17 0.05% 0.03% -0.02%
2 2023-03-07 0.89% 0.05% -0.84%
3 2022-02-04 0.89%

Full EPSS history (3 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2007-4394

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
2.1 2.0 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
3.9 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2007-4394

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2007-4394

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
novell suse_linux 10.0 cpe:2.3:o:novell:suse_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
novell suse_linux 10.1 cpe:2.3:o:novell:suse_linux:10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
suse suse_linux 9.0 cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:9.0:*:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*
suse suse_linux 10 cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:10:*:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2007-4394

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