VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2005-0953
CVSS score3.7 LOW
EPSS probability0.40%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2005-05-02
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
Race condition in bzip2 1.0.2 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 bzip2 after the decompression is complete.