| Vulnerability Name: | CVE-2005-2180 (CCN-23228) | ||||||||
| Assigned: | 2005-06-16 | ||||||||
| Published: | 2005-06-16 | ||||||||
| Updated: | 2016-10-18 | ||||||||
| Summary: | gen-index in GNATS 4.0, 4.1.0, and possibly earlier versions, when installed setuid, does not properly check files passed to the -o argument and opens the file with write access, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files. | ||||||||
| CVSS v3 Severity: | 4.0 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
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| CVSS v2 Severity: | 2.1 Low (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
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| Vulnerability Type: | CWE-Other | ||||||||
| Vulnerability Consequences: | File Manipulation | ||||||||
| References: | Source: MITRE Type: CNA CVE-2005-2180 Source: BUGTRAQ Type: UNKNOWN 20050706 GNATS - gen-index Source: CCN Type: BugTraq Mailing List, 2005-07-06 15:03:23 GNATS - gen-index Source: CCN Type: SA15963 GNATS Arbitrary File Overwrite Security Issue Source: SECUNIA Type: UNKNOWN 15963 Source: CCN Type: GNATS Web page GNATS - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) Source: CCN Type: OSVDB ID: 17759 GNATS gen-index -o Parameter Arbitrary File Overwrite Source: MISC Type: UNKNOWN http://www.pi3.int.pl/adv/gnats.txt Source: CCN Type: BID-14169 GNU GNATS Gen-Index Arbitrary Local File Disclosure/Overwrite Vulnerability Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN gnats-o-file-overwrite(23228) | ||||||||
| Vulnerable Configuration: | Configuration 1: Configuration CCN 1:  Denotes that component is vulnerable | ||||||||
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