CVE-2005-4660

high

Description

Race condition in IPCop (aka IPCop Firewall) before 1.4.10 might allow local users to overwrite system configuration files and gain privileges by replacing a backup archive during the time window when the archive is owned by "nobody" but not yet encrypted, then executing ipcoprscfg to restore from this backup.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15378

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1344047&group_id=40604&atid=428516

http://secunia.com/advisories/17513/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-12-31

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.2

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00068