CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-2579

7.2 HIGH Published 2005-08-16 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-08-16
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

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 configurations

• nortel contivity v05 01.030

References