Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-5714

Title: Gentoo Mldonkey Ebuild RCE

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2007-5714.

CWE Category CWE-287

Published Date Oct 30, 2007

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.80%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2007-5714: The Gentoo ebuild of MLDonkey before 2.9.0-r3 has a p2p user account with an empty default password and valid login shell, which might allow remote attackers to obtain login access and execute arbitrary code.

Impacted Vendors

gentoo 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/27366 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200710-25.xml http://secunia.com/advisories/27366 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200710-25.xml

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2007-5714 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 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 30, 2007 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:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.