PT-2005-2680 · Gentoo · Webapp-Config

Eric Romang · Published 2005-05-24 · Updated 2011-03-08 · CVE-2005-1707

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Gentoo webapp-config versions prior to 1.10-r14

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the postinst.txt temporary file, specifically through the fn show postinst function.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.10-r14, update to version 1.10-r14 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the fn show postinst function until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-1707

Affected Products

Webapp-Config

References · 10

• 🔥 http://securitytracker.com/id?1014027 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://zataz.net/adviso/webapp-config-05182005.txt · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/25709 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-1707 · Security Note
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-13.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/15445 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0809 · Note
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91785 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/16746 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/13780 · Note