CVE-2005-2579
N/A
Published: August 16, 2005 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:15 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorContivity
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (1)
Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Source: [email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112370730131219&w=2Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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