CVE-2005-4802 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Flexbackup versions 1.2.1 and earlier, allowing attackers to overwrite arbitrary files and execute code through a symlink attack on temporary files. With a CVSS score of 4.6 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P), this flaw requires local access and low attack complexity to achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploits in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:flexbackup:flexbackup:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.