CVE-2005-1396 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Race condition in Ce/Ceterm (aka ARPUS/Ce) 2.5.4 and earlier allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the ce_edit_log temporary file.

Published: 2005-05-02

Score: 1.2 Low

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:swlink:ce_ceterm::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:swlink:ce_ceterm:2.4:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:swlink:ce_ceterm:2.5:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:swlink:ce_ceterm:2.5.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:swlink:ce_ceterm:2.5.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:swlink:ce_ceterm:2.5.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:swlink:ce_ceterm:2.5.4:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2005-1399	Race condition in Ce/Ceterm (aka ARPUS/Ce) 2.5.4 and earlier allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the ce_edit_log temporary file.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity High

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00637.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-May/033705.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/15197
http://securitytracker.com/id?1013855
http://www.digitalmunition.com/DMA%5B2005-0501a%5D.txt
http://www.osvdb.org/16050

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Swlink Ce Ceterm

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-05-02T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T21:51:48.962Z

Reserved: 2005-05-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-1396

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-05-03T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2005-1396

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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