CVE-2005-2991 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting ncompress versions 4.2.4 and earlier. An attacker can exploit this flaw via a symlink attack on temporary files created by zdiff or zcmp, allowing them to overwrite arbitrary files on the system. With a CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), this vulnerability has low severity, requiring local access and user interaction for a low impact on integrity. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.2.4_r1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ncompress:ncompress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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