CVE-2005-1396
Race condition in Ce/Ceterm (aka ARPUS/Ce) 2.5.4 and earlier allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the…
- 1.2LowCVSS base score
- 0.73%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 45% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Race condition in Ce/Ceterm (aka ARPUS/Ce) 2.5.4 and earlier allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the ce_edit_log temporary file.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
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Exploit-DB2 entries
- ARPUS/Ce - Local File Overwrite (setuid) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 973local, linuxpublished 1 May 2005Verified
- ARPUS/Ce - Local Overflow (setuid) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 974local, linuxpublished 1 May 2005Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low1.2 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.73% · top 45% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 1.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- 20050501 DMA[2005-0501a] - 'ARPUS/Ce setuid buffer overflow and file overwrite' (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 1013855 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 16050 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 15197 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.digitalmunition.com/DMA%5B2005-0501a%5D.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2005-1399 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2005-1396)Record last updated .