CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-4659

2.1 LOW Published 2005-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-12-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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 configurations

• ipcop ipcop 1.4.1 • ipcop ipcop 1.4.2 • ipcop ipcop 1.4.4 • ipcop ipcop 1.4.5 • ipcop ipcop 1.4.6 • ipcop ipcop 1.4.8 • ipcop ipcop 1.4.9

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