Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-0357

Title: EMC Legato NetWorker AUTH_UNIX authentication bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-0357.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Aug 23, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.50%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-0357: EMC Legato NetWorker, Sun Solstice Backup 6.0 and 6.1, and StorEdge Enterprise Backup 7.0 through 7.2 rely on AUTH_UNIX authentication, which relies on user ID for authentication and allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain privileges by spoofing a username or UID.

Impacted Vendors

sun 2

emc 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/16464 http://secunia.com/advisories/16470 http://securitytracker.com/id?1014713 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101886-1 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/606857 http://www.legato.com/support/websupport/product_alerts/081605_NW_authentication.htm http://www.osvdb.org/18800 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14582 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21887 http://secunia.com/advisories/16464 http://secunia.com/advisories/16470 http://securitytracker.com/id?1014713 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101886-1 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/606857 http://www.legato.com/support/websupport/product_alerts/081605_NW_authentication.htm http://www.osvdb.org/18800 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14582 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21887

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-0357 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 23, 2005 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.