Detections
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CVE-2005-0580

high

Description

cmd5checkpw, when running setuid, does not properly drop privileges before calling the execvp function, which allows local users to read the poppasswd file.

References

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-30.xml

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-02-25

Updated: 2008-09-05

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Severity: High