CVE-2005-1111
Publication date 2 May 2005
Last updated 17 July 2025
Ubuntu priority
Description
Race condition in cpio 2.6 and earlier allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is being decompressed, whose permissions are changed by cpio after the decompression is complete.
Severity score breakdown
CVSS version: CVSS v3.0
Base score
4.7 · Medium
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N