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CVE-2005-1878
GIPTables Firewall 1.1 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temp.ip.addresses temporary…
- 1.2LowCVSS base score
- 0.30%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 77% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
GIPTables Firewall 1.1 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temp.ip.addresses temporary file.
Timeline
Published
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
ID reserved
By mitre
- 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)
- 0.30% · top 77% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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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
4
- 15604 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20050606 GIPTables Firewall <= v1.1 insecure temporary file creation (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 1014109 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.zataz.net/adviso/giptables-05222005.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-2005-1880 (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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