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CVE-2005-2620

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-08-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

grpWise.exe for Novell GroupWise client 5.5 through 6.5.2 stores the password in plaintext in memory, which allows attackers to obtain the password using a debugger or another mechanism to read process memory.

Affected products

• Novell GroupWise: 6.0, 6.5, 6.5.2

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-06/0158.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-08/0858.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112431139225724&w=2
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1014247
• http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/10098073.htm
• http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/2972056.htm
• http://www.osvdb.org/17470
• http://www.securiteam.com/windowsntfocus/5UP0Q0UG0I.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13997
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21075
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-06/0158.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-08/0858.html

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