CVE-2005-4659

CVE-2005-4659 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in IPCop Firewall versions prior to 1.4.10. The flaw allows local users to read the backup.key file due to world-readable permissions, potentially enabling them to craft malicious encrypted backup archives. By restoring such an archive, an attacker could overwrite system configuration files and gain elevated privileges. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1, indicating low attack complexity and requiring local access, with a potential impact of partial confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.