Vulnerability in Apachetop

CVE-2005-2660

apachetop 0.12.5 and earlier, when running in debug mode, allows local users to create or append to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on atop.debug.

Published 2005-09-30 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 2.1 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (27.6th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 28th percentile — 27.6% 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

Apachetop

References

securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
www.zataz.net/adviso/apachetop-09022005.txt (Vendor Advisory)
securityreason.com/securityalert/38 (third-party-advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/14982 (vdb-entry)
bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi (Patch)