CVE-2005-4660: Ipcop

Low severity, CVSS 1.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in IPCop (aka IPCop Firewall) before 1.4.10 might allow local users to overwrite system configuration files and gain privileges by replacing a backup archive during the time window when the archive is owned by "nobody" but not yet encrypted, 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.