CVE-2005-1856

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The CD-burning feature in backup-manager 0.5.8 and earlier uses a fixed filename in a world-writable directory for logging, which allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack.

Published 2005-08-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.