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CVE-2005-2693

Date: August 24, 2005

cvsbug in CVS 1.12.12 and earlier creates temporary files insecurely, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack.

Severity Score

5.9

Related Resources (12)

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-756.html

Url: http://securitytracker.com/id?1014857

Url: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:20.cvsbug.asc

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-802

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/16765

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2693

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-806

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1667

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10835

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166366

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2005-2693

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2005-2693

Severity Score

5.9

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.9
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.6
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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