CVE-2005-1151

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-05-25 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

qpopper 4.0.5 and earlier does not properly drop privileges before processing certain user-supplied files, which allows local users to overwrite or create arbitrary files as root.

Affected products

Debian Qpopper: through 4.0.4; 4.0.5

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90622
http://secunia.com/advisories/15475
http://secunia.com/advisories/15478
http://secunia.com/advisories/15505
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-728
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200505-17.xml
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90622
http://secunia.com/advisories/15475
http://secunia.com/advisories/15478
http://secunia.com/advisories/15505
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-728
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200505-17.xml

Get alerted when CVE-2005-1151 or the next vulnerability affects your stack