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CVE-2005-1740: Net SNMP: Command injection

CVE-2005-1740 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Net SNMP. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

fixproc in Net-snmp 5.x before 5.2.1-r1 creates temporary files insecurely, which allows local users to modify the contents of those files to execute arbitrary commands, or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

  • Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
  • Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
  • Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
  • Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
  • Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
  • Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Affected products

  • Net SNMP: 5.0.1; 5.0.3; 5.0.4_pre2; 5.0.5; 5.0.6; 5.0.7; 5.0.8; 5.0.9; 5.1.2

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