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CVE-2005-2104

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2104 describes a local information disclosure vulnerability in Red Hat sysreport versions prior to 1.3.7. An attacker can exploit this by using a symlink attack on a temporary directory to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), indicating local access, low attack complexity, and a potential impact of partial confidentiality loss. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:sysreport:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
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
0.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
35.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0043 is in the 64th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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 (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: sysreport-0:1.3.7.2-9
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-2104Low

security flaw

Aug 9, 2005

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/16381
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/17539
securitytracker.com / id
PatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/21770
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9411
osvdb.org / 18682
redhat.com / archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-November/msg00034.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-November/msg00035.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-598.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/15379