CVE-2005-4351

medium

Description

The securelevels implementation in FreeBSD 7.0 and earlier, OpenBSD up to 3.8, DragonFly up to 1.2, and Linux up to 2.6.15 allows root users to bypass immutable settings for files by mounting another filesystem that masks the immutable files while the system is running.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24037

http://www.redteam-pentesting.de/advisories/rt-sa-2005-15.txt

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2005-10/1523.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-12-31

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00126