CVE-2005-1880 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in everybuddy 0.4.3 and earlier. It allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack on a temporary file created during a system call to wget. This vulnerability has a CVSS v3.1 score of 5.5 (Medium), indicating a low attack complexity and requiring local access, with a high impact on integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploits in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:everybuddy:everybuddy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.