CVE-2005-4803

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Summary

CVECVE-2005-4803
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-12-31 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
Descriptiongraphviz before 2.2.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files. NOTE: this issue was originally associated with a different CVE identifier, CVE-2005-2965, which had been used for multiple different issues. This is the correct identifier.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 3.6 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Graphviz Graphviz 1.10_2003-09-15_0415_1 All All All
Application Graphviz Graphviz 1.10_2003-09-15_0415_2 All All All
Application Graphviz Graphviz 1.12.1 All All All
Application Graphviz Graphviz 1.12.2 All All All
Application Graphviz Graphviz 1.12.3 All All All
Application Graphviz Graphviz 1.14.1 All All All
Application Graphviz Graphviz 1.16.1 All All All
Application Graphviz Graphviz 1.5.1 All All All
Application Graphviz Graphviz 1.5.2 All All All
Application Graphviz Graphviz 1.5.3 All All All
Application Graphviz Graphviz 1.7.16.1 All All All
Application Graphviz Graphviz 1.7.16.2 All All All
Application Graphviz Graphviz 1.7.5.1 All All All
Application Graphviz Graphviz 1.7.5.2 All All All
Application Graphviz Graphviz 1.7.5.3 All All All
Application Graphviz Graphviz 1.7.5.4 All All All
Application Graphviz Graphviz 1.7.5.5 All All All
Application Graphviz Graphviz 1.7.5.6 All All All
Application Graphviz Graphviz 1.7.5.7 All All All
Application Graphviz Graphviz 1.7.5_0.1 All All All
Application Graphviz Graphviz 1.7.5_0.2 All All All
Application Graphviz Graphviz 1.7.5_0.3 All All All
Application Graphviz Graphviz 1.8.5.1 All All All
Application Graphviz Graphviz 1.8.5.2 All All All
Application Graphviz Graphviz 1.8.9.1 All All All
Application Graphviz Graphviz All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Secunia - Advisories - Debian update for graphviz af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Secunia - Advisories - Graphviz "dotty.lefty" Insecure Temporary File Creation af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-857-1 graphviz af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
USN-208-1: graphviz vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 usn.ubuntu.com
mandriva.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Secunia - Advisories - Ubuntu update for graphviz af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Graphviz Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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