CVE-2005-2809 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the silc daemon in Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC) version 1.0 and earlier. A local attacker can exploit this flaw by performing a symlink attack on the temporary file "silcd.[PID].stats," leading to the overwriting of arbitrary files. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), indicating local access, low attack complexity, and a potential impact limited to integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.9.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:silc:secure_internet_live_conferencing:0.9.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.9.12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:silc:secure_internet_live_conferencing:0.9.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.9.13CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:silc:secure_internet_live_conferencing:0.9.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.9.14CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:silc:secure_internet_live_conferencing:0.9.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.9.15CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:silc:secure_internet_live_conferencing:0.9.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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