CVE-2005-2960 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in cfengine versions 1.6.5 and 2.1.16, specifically affecting Debian and GNU/Linux distributions. An attacker can exploit this by using a symlink attack on temporary files created by the vicf.in utility, allowing them to overwrite 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 potential for partial integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.5.3-4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:1.5.3-4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:1.6:a10:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:1.6:a11:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:1.6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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