Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-3321

Title: chkstat hardlink permission modification vulnerability

Permission modification

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-3321.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Oct 27, 2005

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.03%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-3321: chkstat in SuSE Linux 9.0 through 10.0 allows local users to modify permissions of files by creating a hardlink to a file from a world-writable directory, which can cause the link count to drop to 1 when the file is deleted or replaced, which is then modified by chkstat to use weaker permissions.

Impacted Vendors

suse 1

novell 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/17290/ http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_62_permissions.html http://www.osvdb.org/20263 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15182 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22853 http://secunia.com/advisories/17290/ http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_62_permissions.html http://www.osvdb.org/20263 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15182 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22853

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-3321 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 27, 2005 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.