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CVE-2005-1759

• Severity: low (CVSS 1.2 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: 2005-06-28 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Race condition in shtool 2.0.1 and earlier allows local users to modify or create arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files after they have been created, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-1751.

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/15668
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-08.xml
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13767
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93782
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111955937622637&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/15668
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-08.xml
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13767

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