CVE-2005-1740 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2005-1740

fixproc in Net-snmp 5.x before 5.2.1-r1 creates temporary files insecurely,...

Vulnerability Description

fixproc in Net-snmp 5.x before 5.2.1-r1 creates temporary files insecurely, which allows local users to modify the contents of those files to execute arbitrary commands, or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

net-snmp
Vulnerable Versions:
5.0.1, 5.0.3, 5.0.4_pre2, 5.0.5, 5.0.6, 5.0.7, 5.0.8, 5.0.9, 5.1.2

Timeline

Official Publish: May 24th, 2005
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.