CVE-2005-4660 — Race condition in IPCop (aka IPCop Firewall) before 1.4.10 might allow local users to overwrite system configuration files and gain privileges by replacing a backup archive during the time window when the archive is owned by "nobody" but not yet encrypted, then executing ipcoprscfg to restore from this backup

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Race condition in IPCop (aka IPCop Firewall) before 1.4.10 might allow local users to overwrite system configuration files and gain privileges by replacing a backup archive during the time window when the archive is owned by "nobody" but not yet encrypted, then executing ipcoprscfg to restore from this backup

Published Jan 16, 2006

1.2

LOW

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.29%

Description

Race condition in IPCop (aka IPCop Firewall) before 1.4.10 might allow local users to overwrite system configuration files and gain privileges by replacing a backup archive during the time window when the archive is owned by "nobody" but not yet encrypted, then executing ipcoprscfg to restore from this backup.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.29% 0.00295

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

EPSS probability 0.00295

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% (0.00295)	20.04th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.30% (0.00296)	21.03th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.06% (0.00061)	16.32th	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% (0.00890)	30.33th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	28.64th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	26.62th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	12.04th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

http://secunia.com/advisories/17513/
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAPatch
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1344047&group_id=40604&atid=428516
x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15378
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/17513/		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAPatch
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1344047&group_id=40604&atid=428516		x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15378		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jan 16, 2006

Updated Sep 17, 2024

Reserved Jan 16, 2006

Link CVE-2005-4660

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2005-4660

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2005-4660