Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-4279

Title: Gentoo Qt-Unixodbc Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-4279.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Dec 16, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.40%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-4279: Untrusted search path vulnerability in Qt-UnixODBC before 3.3.4-r1 on Gentoo Linux allows local users in the portage group to gain privileges via a malicious shared object in the Portage temporary build directory, which is part of the RUNPATH.

Impacted Vendors

gentoo 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/17232 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-14.xml http://www.osvdb.org/20087 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15120 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2119 http://secunia.com/advisories/17232 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-14.xml http://www.osvdb.org/20087 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15120 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2119

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-2005-4279 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.

December 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.