CVE-2006-0055 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the ee text editor on FreeBSD versions 4.10 through 6.0. The flaw resides in the ispell_op function, which uses predictable filenames and fails to verify file writes when invoking ispell, allowing a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), indicating local access, low attack complexity, and potential for partial integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.10:release:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.10:release_p8:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.10:releng:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.11:release_p3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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