Security Advisory

CVE-2005-0580

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-02-27 05:00:00
Last updated 2024-09-17 00:06:21
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

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