CVE-2005-4660 describes a race condition in IPCop Firewall versions prior to 1.4.10. A local attacker could exploit this by replacing a backup archive while it's temporarily owned by "nobody" but unencrypted, then using ipcoprscfg to restore from the malicious backup, potentially overwriting system configuration files and gaining privileges. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 1.2, indicating a local attack with high complexity and partial impact to integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ipcop:ipcop:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ipcop:ipcop:1.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.4.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ipcop:ipcop:1.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.4.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ipcop:ipcop:1.4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.4.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ipcop:ipcop:1.4.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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