Vulnerability in Debian Qpopper
CVE-2005-1151
qpopper 4.0.5 and earlier does not properly drop privileges before processing certain user-supplied files, which allows local users to overwrite or create arbitrary files as root.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (26.8th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 27th percentile — 26.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Debian Qpopper — versions 4.0.5
References
- secunia.com/advisories/15505 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/15478 (third-party-advisory)
- bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi
- www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-728 (vendor-advisory, Patch)
- secunia.com/advisories/15475 (third-party-advisory)
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200505-17.xml (vendor-advisory)