VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2005-1151

CVSS score7.2 HIGH
EPSS probability0.36%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2005-05-25
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

qpopper 4.0.5 and earlier does not properly drop privileges before processing certain user-supplied files, which allows local users to overwrite or create arbitrary files as root.

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