CVE-2005-2807: Frox

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

frox 0.7.18, when running setuid root, does not properly drop privileges when reading a configuration file, which allows local users to read portions of arbitrary files via the -f command line option.

Affected products

• Frox Frox: version 0.7.18 only

Published 2005-09-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.