CVE Catalog

CVE-2005-1151

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The vulnerability in qpopper 4.0.5 and earlier versions is due to improper dropping of privileges before processing user-supplied files. A local user can exploit this flaw to overwrite or create arbitrary files with root privileges.

Risk Assessment

The risk involves privilege escalation by a local user, which could lead to full system compromise or corruption of critical files.

Recommendation

Update qpopper to a version later than 4.0.5, which fixes the privilege dropping mechanism before processing user files.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS