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CVE-2005-1751

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-1751 describes a race condition vulnerability in shtool versions 2.0.1 and earlier. This flaw allows a local attacker to create or modify arbitrary files through a symlink attack on the temporary .shtool.$$ file. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 3.7 (low severity), indicating a local attack vector with high attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no known active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:shtool:shtool:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.7LOW

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
31.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 747 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: php-0:4.3.2-24.ent
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: php-0:4.3.9-3.7
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-1751Low

shtool: insecure temporary file creation

May 24, 2005

References

bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/15496
secunia.com / advisories/15668
securitytracker.com / id
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A345
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9639
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-789
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-08.xml
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-564.html
securityfocus.com / bid/13767
zataz.net / adviso/shtool-05252005.txt
Vendor Advisory