CVE-2005-2180

medium

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.

References

http://www.pi3.int.pl/adv/gnats.txt

http://secunia.com/advisories/15963

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112066901231154&w=2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-07-11

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

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

Severity: Low

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00068