Detections
Analytics
CVE-2005-4659
high
Description
IPCop (aka IPCop Firewall) before 1.4.10 has world-readable permissions for the backup.key file, which might allow local users to overwrite system configuration files and gain privileges by creating a malicious encrypted backup archive owned by "nobody", then executing ipcoprscfg to restore from this backup.
References
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23056
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15377
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1344032&group_id=40604&atid=428516
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=369759