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CVE-2005-3631

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 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: 2005-12-22 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

udev does not properly set permissions on certain files in /dev/input, which allows local users to obtain sensitive data that is entered at the console, such as user passwords.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 4.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 4.0

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/18193
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015386
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-864.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15994
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10854
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18193
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015386
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-864.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15994
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10854

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