CVE-2005-1740: Net-SNMP

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 8.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

fixproc in Net-snmp 5.x before 5.2.1-r1 creates temporary files insecurely, which allows local users to modify the contents of those files to execute arbitrary commands, or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Net-SNMP Net-SNMP: version 5.0.1 only; version 5.0.3 only; version 5.0.4_pre2 only; version 5.0.5 only; version 5.0.6 only; version 5.0.7 only; …

Published 2005-05-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.