VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2005-2180
CVSS score2.1 LOW
EPSS probability0.35%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2005-07-11
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Description
gen-index in GNATS 4.0, 4.1.0, and possibly earlier versions, when installed setuid, does not properly check files passed to the -o argument and opens the file with write access, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files.