CVE-2005-1917

LOW 2.1CVE-2005-1917 · Published 05/07/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-1917 is a LOW (CVSS 2.1) vulnerability affecting kpopper (kpopper).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.29%, higher than 21.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
kpopper kpopper	`= 1.0`	No fix yet

kpopper 1.0 and earlier allows local users to create and overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .popper-new temporary file.

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