Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-3785

Title: Second-order symlink (file overwrite) in Ebuild IndeX (eix)

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-3785.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Nov 23, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.10%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-3785: Second-order symlink vulnerability in eix-sync.in in Ebuild IndeX (eix) before 0.5.0_pre2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the exi.X.sync temporary file, which is processed by the diff-eix program.

Impacted Vendors

gentoo 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112061 http://secunia.com/advisories/17699 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-19.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15541 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2539 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112061 http://secunia.com/advisories/17699 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-19.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15541 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2539

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-3785 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 23, 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:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.