CVE-2006-5297

Summary

CVE	CVE-2006-5297
State	PUBLISHED
Assigner	mitre
Source Priority	CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published	2006-10-16 19:07:00 UTC
Updated	2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
Description	Race condition in the safe_open function in the Mutt mail client 1.5.12 and earlier, when creating temporary files in an NFS filesystem, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files due to limitations of the use of the O_EXCL flag on NFS filesystems.

Primary CVSS: v2.0 1.2 from [email protected]

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

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

Access Vector

Local

Access Complexity

High

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Partial

Availability

None

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

Type	Vendor	Product	Version	Update	Edition	Language
Application	Mutt	Mutt	0.95.6	All	All	All
Application	Mutt	Mutt	1.2.1	All	All	All
Application	Mutt	Mutt	1.2.5	All	All	All
Application	Mutt	Mutt	1.2.5.1	All	All	All
Application	Mutt	Mutt	1.2.5.12	All	All	All
Application	Mutt	Mutt	1.2.5.12_ol	All	All	All
Application	Mutt	Mutt	1.2.5.4	All	All	All
Application	Mutt	Mutt	1.2.5.5	All	All	All
Application	Mutt	Mutt	1.3.12	All	All	All
Application	Mutt	Mutt	1.3.12.1	All	All	All
Application	Mutt	Mutt	1.3.16	All	All	All
Application	Mutt	Mutt	1.3.17	All	All	All
Application	Mutt	Mutt	1.3.22	All	All	All
Application	Mutt	Mutt	1.3.24	All	All	All
Application	Mutt	Mutt	1.3.25	All	All	All
Application	Mutt	Mutt	1.3.27	All	All	All
Application	Mutt	Mutt	1.3.28	All	All	All
Application	Mutt	Mutt	1.4.0	All	All	All
Application	Mutt	Mutt	1.4.1	All	All	All
Application	Mutt	Mutt	1.4.2	All	All	All
Application	Mutt	Mutt	1.4.2.1	All	All	All
Application	Mutt	Mutt	1.5.10	All	All	All
Application	Mutt	Mutt	1.5.3	All	All	All
Application	Mutt	Mutt	All	All	All	All

Source	Vendor	Product	Version	Platforms
CNA	Na	N/a	affected n/a	Not specified

Reference	Source	Link	Tags
Webmail - OVH	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	www.vupen.com
rhn.redhat.com \| Red Hat Support	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	www.redhat.com
usn/usn-373-1 - Ubuntu: Linux for human beings	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	www.ubuntu.com
Mandriva update for mutt - Advisories - Secunia	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	secunia.com
Red Hat update for mutt - Advisories - Secunia	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	secunia.com
Mutt Insecure Temporary File Creation Multiple Vulnerabilities	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	www.securityfocus.com
Repository / Oval Repository	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	oval.cisecurity.org
Trustix Update for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	secunia.com
www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0061	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	www.trustix.org
'security problem with temp files [was Re: mutt_adv_mktemp() ?]' - MARC	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	marc.info
Advisories - Mandriva Linux	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	www.mandriva.com
Mutt Insecure Temporary File Creation Weaknesses - Advisories - Secunia	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	secunia.com
Ubuntu update for mutt - Advisories - Secunia	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	secunia.com
CVE Program record	CVE.ORG	www.cve.org	canonical
NVD vulnerability detail	NVD	nvd.nist.gov	canonical, analysis

Organization	Published	Contributor	Statement
Red Hat	2007-09-07	Joshua Bressers	Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211085 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch. The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 which is in maintenance mode.

There are currently no legacy QID mappings associated with this CVE.