Vulnerability in Xshisen

CVE-2005-0117

Buffer overflow in XShisen before 1.36 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long GECOS field.

Published 2005-01-11 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 4.6 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (36.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 37th percentile — 36.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Xshisen

References

www.vuxml.org/freebsd/56971fa6-641c-11d9-a097-000854d03344.html (Vendor Advisory)
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi (Vendor Advisory)