CVE-2005-2960

cfengine <2.1.16 - Local Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (15)

Core 15
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107871
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/17040
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22489
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14994
Patch vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-836
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-198-1
Patch vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-835
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/17182
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/17037/
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/17142
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/17038
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:184
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/17215
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_23_sr.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0007
EPSS Percentile 22.1%

Details

Status published
Products (19)
debian/debian_linux 3.1 (13 CPE variants)
gnu/cfengine 1.5
gnu/cfengine 1.5.3-4
gnu/cfengine 1.6 a10 (2 CPE variants)
gnu/cfengine 1.6.5
gnu/cfengine 2.0.0
gnu/cfengine 2.0.1
gnu/cfengine 2.0.2
gnu/cfengine 2.0.3
gnu/cfengine 2.0.4
... and 9 more
Published Oct 05, 2005
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026