Vulnerability in Ifax Solutions Hylafax
CVE-2005-3538
hfaxd in HylaFAX 4.2.3, when PAM support is disabled, accepts arbitrary passwords, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/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: 0.025 (83.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 84th percentile — 83.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.025 · newest: 0.025 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Ifax Solutions Hylafax — versions 4.2.3
References
- secunia.com/advisories/18314 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/18337 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.hylafax.org/content/HylaFAX_4.2.4_release
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200601-03.xml (vendor-advisory, Patch)
- www.hylafax.org/archive/2005-12/msg00119.php (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/18489 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/420974/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- bugs.hylafax.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi (Patch)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0072 (vdb-entry)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)