CVE-2005-2944: Brent Ely Gnome Workstation Command Center

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The perform_file_save function in GNOME Workstation Command Center (gwcc) 0.9.6 and earlier allows local users to create and overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the gwcc_out.txt temporary file.

Affected products

• Brent Ely Gnome Workstation Command Center: up to and including 0.9.6; version 0.9.8 only

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