CVE-2005-1740

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-05-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

fixproc in Net-snmp 5.x before 5.2.1-r1 creates temporary files insecurely, which allows local users to modify the contents of those files to execute arbitrary commands, or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Affected products

net-snmp: 5.0.1, 5.0.3, 5.0.4_pre2, 5.0.5, 5.0.6, 5.0.7 (+3)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/15471
http://secunia.com/advisories/16999
http://secunia.com/advisories/17135
http://secunia.com/advisories/18635
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200505-18.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014039
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:025
http://www.osvdb.org/16778
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-373.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-395.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13715
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0598

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