CVE-2005-3126 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting antiword 0.35 and earlier. The kantiword.sh and gantiword.sh scripts are susceptible to a symlink attack, allowing local users to overwrite arbitrary files through temporary output and error files. With a CVSS score of 1.9, this vulnerability has low severity, requiring local access and medium attack complexity, with a potential impact of partial integrity loss. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.32CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:antiword:antiword:0.32:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.35CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:antiword:antiword:0.35:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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