CVE-2005-1944 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in xmysqladmin version 1.0 and earlier. An attacker can exploit this flaw by creating a symbolic link to an arbitrary file, tricking the application into deleting it when it attempts to create a database backup in the /tmp directory. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), indicating it requires local access and has a low impact, primarily affecting availability by allowing arbitrary file deletion. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it has received no community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xmysqladmin:xmysqladmin:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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