CVE-2005-2180

Published Jul 11, 2005

Last updated 8 years ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 2.1
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 3.9
Vector string: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Configurations

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  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnats:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "E41302A2-137C-4F61-967D-7EBBBD692AC8"
          },
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnats:4.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "3159019A-EB06-42E3-9C5A-0D3EA0E92886"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

Overview

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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Weaknesses

Configurations

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