{"id":"CVE-2005-2995","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2005-2995","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:39:15.937Z","title":"bacula 1.36.3 and earlier allows local users to modify or read sensitive files via symlink attacks on (1) the temporary file used by autoconf/randpass when openssl is not available, or (2) the mtx.[PID] temporary file in mtx-changer.in.","description":"bacula 1.36.3 and earlier allows local users to modify or read sensitive files via symlink attacks on (1) the temporary file used by autoconf/randpass when openssl is not available, or (2) the mtx.[PID] temporary file in mtx-changer.in.","published":"2005-09-20T22:03:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:16:03.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":3.6,"severity":"LOW","vector":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N"},"cwe":[],"affected":["bacula/bacula"],"epss":{"score":0.00392,"percentile":0.33098,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.39%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104986","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=112721654126735&w=2","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_22_sr.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.zataz.net/adviso/bacula-09192005.txt","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104986","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=112721654126735&w=2","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_22_sr.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.zataz.net/adviso/bacula-09192005.txt","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2995","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}