CVE-2005-2693

published 2005-08-26

CVE-2005-2693: cvsbug in CVS 1.12.12 and earlier creates temporary files insecurely, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code via a…

Priority P4 17 medium 4.6 CVSS 2.0

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

cvsbug in CVS 1.12.12 and earlier creates temporary files insecurely, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
cvs	cvs	—	—
cvs	cvs	>= 0 < 1:1.11.5-4	1:1.11.5-4
cvs	cvs	>= 0 < 1:1.11.5-4	1:1.11.5-4
cvs	cvs	>= 0 < 1:1.11.5-4	1:1.11.5-4
cvs	cvs	>= 0 < 1:1.11.5-4	1:1.11.5-4
debian	cvs	< cvs 1:1.11.5-4 (bookworm)	cvs 1:1.11.5-4 (bookworm)

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 4.6 MEDIUM AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv 4.6 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 4.6 LOW

vendor_redhat 4.6 MEDIUM

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