CVE-2005-1853

HIGH 7.2CVE-2005-1853 · Published 03/08/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-1853 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.2) vulnerability affecting gopher (university of minnesota).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.52%, higher than 44.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
gopher university_of_minnesota	`= 3.0.5`	No fix yet

gopher.c in the Gopher client 3.0.5 does not properly create temporary files, which allows local users to gain privileges.

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