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CVE-2005-2995

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.6 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: 2005-09-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

bacula 1.36.3 and earlier allows local users to modify or read sensitive files via symlink attacks on (1) the temporary file used by autoconf/randpass when openssl is not available, or (2) the mtx.[PID] temporary file in mtx-changer.in.

Affected products

• Bacula: through 1.36.3

References

• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104986
• http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=112721654126735&w=2
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_22_sr.html
• http://www.zataz.net/adviso/bacula-09192005.txt
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104986
• http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=112721654126735&w=2
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_22_sr.html
• http://www.zataz.net/adviso/bacula-09192005.txt

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