CVE-2005-0099: Abuse Abuse-Sdl

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The SDL port of abuse (abuse-SDL) before 2.00 does not properly drop privileges before creating certain files, which allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files.

Affected products

• Abuse Abuse-Sdl: up to and including 2.0

Published 2005-03-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.