CVE-2005-1917: Kpopper

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

kpopper 1.0 and earlier allows local users to create and overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .popper-new temporary file.

Affected products

• Kpopper Kpopper: version 1.0 only

Published 2005-07-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.