CVE-2003-0887

LOW 2.1CVE-2003-0887 · Published 31/12/2003 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2003-0887 is a LOW (CVSS 2.1) vulnerability affecting ez-ipupdate (angus mackay).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.29%, higher than 22.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
ez-ipupdate angus_mackay	`= 3.0.11b5= 3.0.11b7`	No fix yet

Description

ez-ipupdate 3.0.11b7 and earlier creates insecure temporary cache files, which allows local users to conduct unauthorized operations via a symlink attack on the ez-ipupdate.cache file.

References

cvs.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/SPECS/ez-ipupdate/ez-ipupdate.spec
cvs.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/SPECS/ez-ipupdate/ez-ipupdate.spec

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