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CVE-2005-4659

LOW CVSS: 2.1 Published: 2005-12-31 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Ipcop Ipcop

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References