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CVE-2005-2180

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
11/07/2005
Last modified:
03/04/2025

Description

gen-index in GNATS 4.0, 4.1.0, and possibly earlier versions, when installed setuid, does not properly check files passed to the -o argument and opens the file with write access, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.10 LOW
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
2.10
Severity 2.0
LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnats:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnats:4.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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