CVE-2005-1707

medium

Description

The fn_show_postinst function in Gentoo webapp-config before 1.10-r14 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the postinst.txt temporary file.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0809

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13780

http://www.osvdb.org/16746

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-13.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/15445

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91785

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-05-24

Updated: 2025-04-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N