CVE-2005-3137

CVE-2005-3137 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting cfengine version 1.6.5. Specifically, the cfmailfilter and cfcron.in files are susceptible to a symlink attack, allowing a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files through manipulation of temporary files. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a low attack complexity and requiring local access, with a potential impact of partial integrity compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.