CVE-2005-2655 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2005-2655

lockmail in maildrop before 1.5.3 does not drop privileges before...

Vulnerability Description

lockmail in maildrop before 1.5.3 does not drop privileges before executing commands, which allows local users to gain privileges via command line arguments.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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References

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

maildrop
Vulnerable Versions:
0.50, 0.51, 0.51b, 0.51c, 0.54, 0.54a, 0.54b, 0.55, 0.55a, 0.55b, 0.55c, 0.60, 0.61, 0.62, 0.63, 0.64, 0.65, 0.70, 0.71, 0.72, 0.73, 0.74, 0.75, 0.76, 0.99.1, 0.99.2, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, 1.3.5, 1.3.6, 1.3.7, 1.3.8, 1.3.9, 1.4.0, 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2

Timeline

Official Publish: August 30th, 2005
Last Modified: September 17th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.