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CVE-2005-0758

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0758 describes a local command injection vulnerability in zgrep within gzip versions prior to 1.3.5, affecting GNU and Canonical gzip and Ubuntu Linux. An attacker can exploit this by crafting filenames that inject arbitrary commands into a sed script. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.6, indicating low attack complexity and requiring local access, with potential impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.3.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gzip:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.6MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
41.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0053 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 3,048 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, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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 (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: gzip-0:1.3.3-12.rhel3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: bzip2-0:1.0.2-11.EL3.4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: gzip-0:1.3.3-15.rhel4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: bzip2-0:1.0.2-13.EL4.3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-0758Low

security flaw

Apr 22, 2005

References

ftp.sco.com / pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.58/SCOSA-2005.58.txt
Third Party Advisory
patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20060301-01.U.asc
Third Party Advisory
bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
Third Party Advisory
docs.info.apple.com / article.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2005-357.html
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/18100
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/19183
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/22033
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/26235
Third Party Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/20539
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
slackware.com / security/viewer.php
Third Party Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1081
Third Party Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1107
Third Party Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9797
Third Party Advisory
fedoralegacy.org / updates/FC2/2005-11-14-FLSA_2005_158801__Updated_bzip2_packages_fix_security_issues.html
Broken LinkPermissions Required
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200505-05.xml
PatchThird Party Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Third Party Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Third Party Advisory
openpkg.com / security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.002.html
Third Party Advisory
osvdb.org / 16371
Broken Link
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-474.html
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/13582
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securityfocus.com / bid/25159
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-158-1
Third Party Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/2732
Third Party Advisory