CVE-2005-1880

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-06-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

everybuddy 0.4.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file created by a system call to wget.

Affected products

Everybuddy: through 0.4.3

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94473
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-June/034422.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014110
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13865
http://www.zataz.net/adviso/everybuddy-06062005.txt
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94473
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-June/034422.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014110
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13865
http://www.zataz.net/adviso/everybuddy-06062005.txt

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