CVE-2005-1740

Net Snmp vulnerability

CVSS

10.0

EPSS

8.6%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

fixproc in Net-snmp 5.x before 5.2.1-r1 creates temporary files insecurely, which allows local users to modify the contents of those files to execute arbitrary commands, or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Affected vendor

Net Snmp

Affected product

Net Snmp

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Published

2005-05-24

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 8.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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