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CVE-2005-0580

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-02-25 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

cmd5checkpw, when running setuid, does not properly drop privileges before calling the execvp function, which allows local users to read the poppasswd file.

Affected products

• Krzysztof Dabrowski Cmd5Checkpw: 0.20, 0.21, 0.22

References

• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-30.xml
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-30.xml

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