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CVE-2005-1111

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.7 · CWE-59
4.7CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

Race condition in cpio 2.6 and earlier allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is being decompressed, whose permissions are changed by cpio after the decompression is complete.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.