CVE-2005-4659 — IPCop (aka IPCop Firewall) before 1.4.10 has world-readable permissions for the backup.key file, which might allow local users to overwrite system configuration files and gain privileges by creating a malicious encrypted backup archive owned by "nobody", then executing ipcoprscfg to restore from this backup

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IPCop (aka IPCop Firewall) before 1.4.10 has world-readable permissions for the backup.key file, which might allow local users to overwrite system configuration files and gain privileges by creating a malicious encrypted backup archive owned by "nobody", then executing ipcoprscfg to restore from this backup

Published Jan 16, 2006

2.1

LOW

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.34%

Description

IPCop (aka IPCop Firewall) before 1.4.10 has world-readable permissions for the backup.key file, which might allow local users to overwrite system configuration files and gain privileges by creating a malicious encrypted backup archive owned by "nobody", then executing ipcoprscfg to restore from this backup.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.34% 0.00345

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

EPSS probability 0.00345

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	0.34% (0.00345)	25.56th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.34% (0.00336)	25.23th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.06% (0.00059)	15.54th	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	0.95% (0.00950)	32.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.95% (0.00950)	30.63th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.95% (0.00950)	28.61th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.95% (0.00950)	13.46th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (5)

http://secunia.com/advisories/17513/
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAPatchVendor Advisory
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=369759
x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1344032&group_id=40604&atid=428516
x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15377
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatch
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23056
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/17513/		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAPatchVendor Advisory
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=369759		x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1344032&group_id=40604&atid=428516		x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15377		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatch
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23056		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jan 16, 2006

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Jan 16, 2006

Link CVE-2005-4659

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2005-4659

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2005-4659