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CVE-2005-0099

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0099 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the SDL port of abuse (abuse-SDL) versions prior to 2.00. This flaw allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files due to the application's failure to properly drop privileges before file creation. With a CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), it indicates a low severity issue requiring local access with low attack complexity, primarily impacting integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not a widely targeted vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:abuse:abuse-sdl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
28.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0036 is in the 33rd percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

secunia.com / advisories/14495
PatchVendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-691
PatchVendor Advisory
osvdb.org / 14610