CVE-2005-1111
Race condition in cpio 2.6 and earlier allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is being decompressed, whose permissions are changed by
02 Description
Race condition in cpio 2.6 and earlier allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is being decompressed, whose permissions are changed by
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.31% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 23.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 4.7 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2005-04-16 04:00Z21 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 21:35Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2005-04-16
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 09b9df3ee6a149ed92afd84f1a4debcfc3486a05b13b74d5c026af2359eb5547
05 Affected products
06 References
- marc.info20050413 cpio TOCTOU file-permissions vulnerabilityhttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111342664116120&w=2
- secunia.com17532http://secunia.com/advisories/17532
- ftp.sco.comSCOSA-2006.2ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.2/SCOSA-2006.2.txt
- ftp.freebsd.orgFreeBSD-SA-06:03ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:03.cpio.asc
- secunia.com17123http://secunia.com/advisories/17123
- www.osvdb.org15725http://www.osvdb.org/15725
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2005:378http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-378.html
- secunia.com16998http://secunia.com/advisories/16998
- www.securityfocus.com13159http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13159
- www.debian.orgDSA-846http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-846
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-189-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-189-1
- lists.suse.comSUSE-SR:2006:010http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-May/0004.html
- secunia.com20117http://secunia.com/advisories/20117
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:9783https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9783
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:358https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A358
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2005:806http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-806.html
- ftp.sco.comSCOSA-2005.32ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.32/SCOSA-2005.32.txt
- secunia.com18395http://secunia.com/advisories/18395
- secunia.com18290http://secunia.com/advisories/18290
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- cpio Fixed in 2.6-6
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- cpio Fixed in 2.6-6
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- cpio Fixed in 2.6-6
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.