CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-0580

2.1 LOW Published 2005-02-25 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-02-25
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

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

Affected configurations

• krzysztof dabrowski cmd5checkpw 0.20 • krzysztof dabrowski cmd5checkpw 0.21 • krzysztof dabrowski cmd5checkpw 0.22

References