Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-2579

Title: Nortel Contivity Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-2579.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Aug 16, 2005

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.03%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-2579: 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.

Impacted Vendors

nortel 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112370730131219&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112370730131219&w=2

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-2579 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 16, 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:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.