CVE-2005-3629

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

initscripts in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 does not properly handle certain environment variables when /sbin/service is executed, which allows local users with sudo permissions for /sbin/service to gain root privileges via unknown vectors.

Affected products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 3.0, 4.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/19162
http://secunia.com/advisories/19532
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015732
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0015.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0016.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17038
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25374
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11198
http://secunia.com/advisories/19162
http://secunia.com/advisories/19532

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