CVE-2005-2960: Debian Linux

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

cfengine 1.6.5 and 2.1.16 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files used by vicf.in, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-3137.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 3.1 only
• GNU Cfengine: version 1.5 only; version 1.5.3-4 only; version 1.6 only; version 1.6.5 only; version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; …

Published 2005-10-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.