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A vulnerability was found in qpopper 4.0.4/4.0.5 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

qpopper 4.0.5 and earlier does not properly drop privileges before processing certain user-supplied files which allows local users to overwrite or create arbitrary files as root.

The bug was discovered 05/24/2005. The weakness was published 05/25/2005 by Jens Steube (Website). The advisory is shared for download at debian.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2005-1151 since 04/18/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 18361 (Qpopper < 4.0.6 Multiple Insecure File Handling Local Privilege Escalation), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Misc. and running in the context r.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (20760) and Tenable (18361). Similar entry is available at 25341.

Productinfo

Name

• qpopper

Version

• 4.0.4
• 4.0.5

CPE 2.3info

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CPE 2.2info

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CVSSv4info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.4
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.0

VulDB Base Score: 8.4
VulDB Temp Score: 8.0
VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CVSSv2info

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Local Privilege Escalation
CWE: Unknown
CAPEC: 🔍
ATT&CK: 🔍

Local: Yes
Remote: No

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 18361
Nessus Name: Qpopper < 4.0.6 Multiple Insecure File Handling Local Privilege Escalation
Nessus File: 🔍
Nessus Risk: 🔍
Nessus Family: 🔍
Nessus Context: 🔍

OpenVAS ID: 53556
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 728-1 (qpopper)
OpenVAS File: 🔍
OpenVAS Family: 🔍

Threat Intelligenceinfo

Interest: 🔍
Active Actors: 🔍
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
Status: 🔍

0-Day Time: 🔍

Timelineinfo

04/18/2005 🔍
05/23/2005 +35 days 🔍
05/24/2005 +1 days 🔍
05/24/2005 +0 days 🔍
05/24/2005 +0 days 🔍
05/25/2005 +1 days 🔍
05/25/2005 +0 days 🔍
06/06/2005 +12 days 🔍
03/11/2015 +3565 days 🔍
06/06/2019 +1548 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: debian.org
Researcher: Jens Steube
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2005-1151 (🔍)
X-Force: 20760
Vulnerability Center: 8238 - Qpopper 4.0.5 Allows Creating or Overwriting Arbitrary Files, Medium
SecurityFocus: 13714 - Qpopper Multiple Insecure File Handling Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 15475
OSVDB: 16810 - CVE-2005-1151 - Qpopper - Privilege Escalation Issue

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/11/2015 11:41
Updated: 06/06/2019 16:37
Changes: 03/11/2015 11:41 (64), 06/06/2019 16:37 (8)
Complete: 🔍

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