CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-2579

Published: Aug 16, 2005 | Modified: Oct 18, 2016

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

7.2 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2579
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

Nortel Contivity VPN Client V05_01.030, when configuring a certificate to be used as authentication, does not properly drop system privileges, which allows local users to gain privileges by opening a program with the File Open dialog box.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Contivity	Nortel	v05_01.030	v05_01.030

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq\u0026m=112370730131219\u0026w=2

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