PT-2005-2837 · Unknown · Everybuddy

Romang · Published 2005-06-06 · Updated 2024-01-26 · CVE-2005-1880

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.1

Low

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions everybuddy versions 0.4.3 and earlier

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file created by a system call to wget. This is a result of a symlink attack vulnerability.

Recommendations For everybuddy versions 0.4.3 and earlier, as a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the wget system call until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-1880

Affected Products

Everybuddy

References · 7

• 🔥 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94473 · Exploit
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/13865 · Vendor Advisory
• http://zataz.net/adviso/everybuddy-06062005.txt · Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1014110 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-June/034422.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-1880 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/68870 · Telegram Post