CVE-2005-1878

LOW 1.2CVE-2005-1878 · Published 09/06/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-1878 is a LOW (CVSS 1.2) vulnerability affecting giptables firewall (giptables).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.30%, higher than 22.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
giptables firewall giptables	`≤ 1.1`	No fix yet

GIPTables Firewall 1.1 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temp.ip.addresses temporary file.

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