Vulnerability in Debian Libmail-Audit-Perl
CVE-2005-4536
Mail::Audit module in libmail-audit-perl 2.1-5, when logging is enabled without a default log file specified, uses predictable log filenames, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the [PID]-audit.log temporary file.
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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 (27.4th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 27th percentile — 27.4% 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 Libmail-Audit-Perl — versions 2.1-5
References
- secunia.com/advisories/18652 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
- www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-960 (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0378 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/16434 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/18656 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24380 (vdb-entry)