CVE-2005-0070 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Synaesthesia 2.1 and earlier, where the application fails to drop root privileges before processing configuration and mixer files, allowing local users to read arbitrary files. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), this flaw presents a high risk due to its low attack complexity and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:synaesthesia:synaesthesia:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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