Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-1286

Title: BitDefender unquoted search path privilege escalation

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-1286.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 02, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 1.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.30%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-1286: Unquoted Windows search path vulnerability in BitDefender 8 allows local users to prevent BitDefender from starting by creating a malicious C:\program.exe, possibly due to the lack of quoting of the full pathname when executing a process.

Impacted Vendors

softwin 1

bitdefender 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111420400316397&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/15076 http://www.osvdb.org/15818 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111420400316397&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/15076 http://www.osvdb.org/15818

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

1.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-1286 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.

May 02, 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:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.