CVE-2005-2240

LOW 2.1CVE-2005-2240 · Published 12/07/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-2240 is a LOW (CVSS 2.1) vulnerability affecting xpvm (xpvm).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.36%, higher than 30.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
xpvm xpvm	`= 1.2.5`	No fix yet

xpvm.tcl in xpvm 1.2.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the xpvm.trace.$user temporary file.

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