CVE-2005-1151 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

qpopper 4.0.5 and earlier does not properly drop privileges before processing certain user-supplied files, which allows local users to overwrite or create arbitrary files as root.

Published: 2005-05-25

Score: 7.2 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:debian:qpopper::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:debian:qpopper:4.0.5:::::::*

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2005-1154	qpopper 4.0.5 and earlier does not properly drop privileges before processing certain user-supplied files, which allows local users to overwrite or create arbitrary files as root.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00069.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90622
http://secunia.com/advisories/15475
http://secunia.com/advisories/15478
http://secunia.com/advisories/15505
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-728
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200505-17.xml

History

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Subscriptions

Debian Qpopper

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: debian

Published: 2005-05-25T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T21:35:59.959Z

Reserved: 2005-04-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-1151

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-05-25T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2005-1151

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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