CVE-2005-4659: Ipcop

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

IPCop (aka IPCop Firewall) before 1.4.10 has world-readable permissions for the backup.key file, which might allow local users to overwrite system configuration files and gain privileges by creating a malicious encrypted backup archive owned by "nobody", then executing ipcoprscfg to restore from this backup.

Affected products

• Ipcop Ipcop: version 1.4.1 only; version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.4 only; version 1.4.5 only; version 1.4.6 only; version 1.4.8 only; …

Published 2005-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.