01 Record
CVE-2005-4691
imake in NetBSD before 2.0.3, NetBSD-current before 12 September 2005, certain versions of X.Org, and certain versions of XFree86 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
imake in NetBSD before 2.0.3, NetBSD-current before 12 September 2005, certain versions of X.Org, and certain versions of XFree86 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack
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
- 0.33% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 27.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
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
- 2006-02-01 02:00Z20 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-16 23:06Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2006-01-31
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 5700e38f1f96535ac7a286789add455833c8cc6e510836fa57d40c26306386d3
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- securitytracker.com1015132http://securitytracker.com/id?1015132
- mail-index.netbsd.orghttp://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2005/09/12/0043.html
- mail-index.netbsd.org[netbsd-announce] 20051031 Announcing update 2.0.3 - source onlyhttp://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2005/10/31/0000.html
- www.securityfocus.com15263http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15263
- www.osvdb.org20731http://www.osvdb.org/20731
- ftp.netbsd.org2005-009ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2005-009.txt.asc