CVE-2006-1753
A cron job in fcheck before 2.7.59 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.
02 Description
A cron job in fcheck before 2.7.59 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.
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
- 0.36% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 29.6% 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
- 2006-04-18 20:00Z20 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 17:27Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2006-04-12
- 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
- 9f9a0905b0e72cd673521cf0aca8baf7aef67cf942ce4c09391b46af17669540
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com19675http://secunia.com/advisories/19675
- www.securityfocus.com17524http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17524
- www.us.debian.orgDSA-1035http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1035
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comfcheck-tmpfile-symlink(25830)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25830
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- fcheck Fixed in 2.7.59-8
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- fcheck Fixed in 2.7.59-8
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- fcheck Fixed in 2.7.59-8
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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