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CVE-2005-2475

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2475 describes a race condition in Unzip version 5.52, allowing local attackers to manipulate file permissions through a hard link attack during decompression. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 1.2, indicating a local attack vector with high attack complexity and a potential impact limited to partial confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, exploit code availability in common frameworks, or significant community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not a widely targeted vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.52CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:info-zip:unzip:5.52:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

1.2LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
32.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0040 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 747 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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: unzip-0:5.50-35.EL3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: unzip-0:5.51-9.EL4.5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-2475Low

security flaw

Aug 2, 2005

References

ftp.sco.com / pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.39/SCOSA-2005.39.txt
marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/16309
secunia.com / advisories/16985
secunia.com / advisories/17006
secunia.com / advisories/17045
secunia.com / advisories/17342
secunia.com / advisories/17653
secunia.com / advisories/25098
securityreason.com / securityalert/32
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9975
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-903
info-zip.org / FAQ.html
mandriva.com / security/advisories
osvdb.org / 18530
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2007-0203.html
securityfocus.com / bid/14450
trustix.org / errata/2005/0053
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-191-1