Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-4595

RCE

Title: Gentoo Xnview RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-4595.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Dec 31, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.42%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-4595: Untrusted search path vulnerability (RPATH) in XnView 1.70 and NView 4.51 on Gentoo Linux allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a malicious library in the current working directory.

Impacted Vendors

gentoo 2

nvidia 1

pierreegougelet 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117063 http://secunia.com/advisories/18235 http://secunia.com/advisories/18240 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200512-18.xml http://www.osvdb.org/22093 http://www.osvdb.org/22094 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16087 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23910 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117063 http://secunia.com/advisories/18235 http://secunia.com/advisories/18240 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200512-18.xml http://www.osvdb.org/22093 http://www.osvdb.org/22094 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16087 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23910

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-2005-4595 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 31, 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.