CVE-2005-4660

Severity: low (CVSS 1.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Race condition in IPCop (aka IPCop Firewall) before 1.4.10 might allow local users to overwrite system configuration files and gain privileges by replacing a backup archive during the time window when the archive is owned by "nobody" but not yet encrypted, then executing ipcoprscfg to restore from this backup.

Affected products

Ipcop: 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.4, 1.4.5, 1.4.6, 1.4.8 (+1)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/17513/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1344047&group_id=40604&atid=428516
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15378
http://secunia.com/advisories/17513/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1344047&group_id=40604&atid=428516
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15378

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