VulnerabilityModified
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 cpio after the decompression is complete.
MEDIUM 4.7EPSS 0.31%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.31%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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 cpio after the decompression is complete.
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.7 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.31% probability · 24th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-59, CWE-367
- Affected
- gnu/cpio · debian/debian linux · canonical/ubuntu linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:03.cpio.ascBroken Link
- ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.2/SCOSA-2006.2.txtBroken Link
- ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.32/SCOSA-2005.32.txtBroken Link
- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-May/0004.htmlBroken Link
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111342664116120&w=2Mailing List
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16998Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17123Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17532Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18290Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18395Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20117Broken Link
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-846Third Party Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/15725Broken Link
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-378.htmlBroken Link
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-806.htmlBroken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13159Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-189-1Third Party Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A358Broken Link
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9783Broken Link
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:03.cpio.ascBroken Link
- ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.2/SCOSA-2006.2.txtBroken Link
- ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.32/SCOSA-2005.32.txtBroken Link
- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-May/0004.htmlBroken Link
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111342664116120&w=2Mailing List
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16998Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17123Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17532Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18290Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18395Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20117Broken Link
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.