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CVE-2005-1740

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-1740 describes an insecure temporary file creation vulnerability in the fixproc component of Net-SNMP versions 5.x prior to 5.2.1-r1. This flaw allows local users to execute arbitrary commands or overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack. The vulnerability carries a critical CVSS score of 10.0, indicating a severe risk with complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts, and is easily exploitable with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:net-snmp:net-snmp:5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:net-snmp:net-snmp:5.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0.4_pre2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:net-snmp:net-snmp:5.0.4_pre2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:net-snmp:net-snmp:5.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:net-snmp:net-snmp:5.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
8.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0864 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: net-snmp-0:5.0.9-2.30E.19
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: net-snmp-0:5.1.2-11.EL4.6
View patch
gentoovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-1740Low

security flaw

May 18, 2005

References

secunia.com / advisories/15471
secunia.com / advisories/16999
secunia.com / advisories/17135
secunia.com / advisories/18635
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200505-18.xml
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11659
mandriva.com / security/advisories
osvdb.org / 16778
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-373.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-395.html
securityfocus.com / bid/13715
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/0598
zataz.net / adviso/net-snmp-05182005.txt