CVE-2005-2579

CVE-2005-2579 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Nortel Contivity VPN Client V05_01.030. When configuring a certificate, the client fails to properly drop system privileges, enabling a local attacker to gain elevated access by exploiting the File Open dialog box. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.2, indicating high severity with complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts, and requires low attack complexity and local access. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old flaw.