What is CVE-2005-1879?

CVE-2005-1879 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Lutel Lutelwall, classified under Improper Link Resolution Before File Access. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2005-06-09.

How severe is CVE-2005-1879?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Lutel Lutelwall

CVE-2005-1879

LutelWall 0.97 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file created by a system call to wget.

Published 2005-06-09 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (30.8th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 31st percentile — 30.8% 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

Lutel Lutelwall

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-59 — Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

firewall.lutel.pl/download/0.98/ChangeLog (Broken Link)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200506-10.xml (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
securitytracker.com/id (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link)
lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-June/034424.html (mailing-list, Not Applicable)
www.zataz.net/adviso/lutelwall-05222005.txt (Broken Link)
secunia.com/advisories/15647 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/15665 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/13863 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2005-1879?: CVE-2005-1879 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Lutel Lutelwall, classified under Improper Link Resolution Before File Access. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2005-06-09.
How severe is CVE-2005-1879?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.