CVE-2005-3137: GNU Cfengine

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

The (1) cfmailfilter and (2) cfcron.in files for cfengine 1.6.5 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2960.

Affected products

• GNU Cfengine: version 1.6.5 only

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