CVE-2005-1751

Severity: low (CVSS 3.7 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

Race condition in shtool 2.0.1 and earlier allows local users to create or modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .shtool.$$ temporary file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-1759.

Affected products

Shtool: through 2.0.1

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93782
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111955937622637&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/15496
http://secunia.com/advisories/15668
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014059
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-789
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-08.xml
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-564.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13767
http://www.zataz.net/adviso/shtool-05252005.txt
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A345
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9639

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