CVE-2005-2960

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 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: 2005-10-05 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

cfengine 1.6.5 and 2.1.16 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files used by vicf.in, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-3137.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 3.1
GNU Cfengine: 1.5, 1.5.3-4, 1.6-a10, 1.6-a11, 1.6.5, 2.0.0 (+22)

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107871
http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.cfengine.help/browse_thread/thread/fc25e7d98f8ba401/38151ed821803be0#38151ed821803be0
http://secunia.com/advisories/17037/
http://secunia.com/advisories/17038
http://secunia.com/advisories/17040
http://secunia.com/advisories/17142
http://secunia.com/advisories/17182
http://secunia.com/advisories/17215
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-835
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-836
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:184
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_23_sr.html

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