CVE-2005-1151: Debian Qpopper

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

qpopper 4.0.5 and earlier does not properly drop privileges before processing certain user-supplied files, which allows local users to overwrite or create arbitrary files as root.

Affected products

• Debian Qpopper: up to and including 4.0.4; version 4.0.5 only

Published 2005-05-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.