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CVE-2005-1151

qpopper 4.0.5 and earlier does not properly drop privileges before processing certain user-supplied files, which allows

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.

HIGH · CVSS 7.2 EPSS 0.00069
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  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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Affected Products & Versions

2
debian qpopper<= 4.0.4
debian qpopperall versions
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Scoring & Timeline

7.2
HIGH · CVSS v2 (legacy) · security@debian.org
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published to NVD25 May 2005 · 04:00 AM
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References & Sources

6
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90622
http://secunia.com/advisories/15475
http://secunia.com/advisories/15478
http://secunia.com/advisories/15505
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-728Patch
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200505-17.xml
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