CVE-2005-1917 — kpopper 1.0 and earlier allows local users to create and overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .popper-new temporary file

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kpopper 1.0 and earlier allows local users to create and overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .popper-new temporary file

Published Jul 5, 2005

2.1

LOW

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.29%

Description

kpopper 1.0 and earlier allows local users to create and overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .popper-new temporary file.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.29% 0.00292

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00292

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.29% (0.00292)	19.71th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.29% (0.00292)	20.68th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.06% (0.00057)	14.91th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (1)

http://www.zataz.net/adviso/kpopper-06152005.txt
x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.zataz.net/adviso/kpopper-06152005.txt		x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner redhat

Published Jul 5, 2005

Updated Sep 16, 2024

Reserved Jun 8, 2005

Link CVE-2005-1917

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2005-1917

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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