Vulnerability CVE-2005-2693
Published: 2005-08-26   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
cvsbug in CVS 1.12.12 and earlier creates temporary files insecurely, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
CVS -> CVS 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166366
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1667
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10835
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-756.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-806
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-802
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014857
http://secunia.com/advisories/16765
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:20.cvsbug.asc
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