CVE-2005-3148 Privilege escalation in n/a
StoreBackup fails to set correct ownership for symbolic links during backup and recovery, potentially allowing privilege escalation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2005-3148?
CVE-2005-3148 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Suse Suse Linux, published on 5 Oct 2005. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
StoreBackup before 1.19 does not properly set the uid and guid for symbolic links (1) that are backed up by storeBackup.pl, or (2) recovered by storeBackupRecover.pl, which could cause files to be restored with incorrect ownership.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-3148?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Storebackup Storebackup, Suse Suse Linux.
How do I fix CVE-2005-3148?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2005-3148 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-3148 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Suse Suse Linux
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2005-3148, GHSA-xgjj-696c-x9g9.