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CVE-2005-1842

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-1842 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in VCNative for Adobe Version Cue 1.0 and 1.0.1, specifically when used with Creative Suite 1.0/1.3 on Mac OS X with Version Cue Workspace. The flaw arises from the creation of temporary log files with predictable names, enabling local attackers to modify arbitrary files through a symlink attack. While the CVSS score is low (2.1) with a "Partial" impact to integrity, an ExploitDB entry exists for local privilege escalation. There is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit or Nuclei modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:version_cue:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:version_cue:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.91%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
56.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-1185 · Aug 30, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0091 is in the 89th 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)

adobepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

secunia.com / advisories/16541
PatchVendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
adobe.com / support/techdocs/327129.html
PatchVendor Advisory
idefense.com / application/poi/display
securityfocus.com / bid/14638