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CVE-2005-2656

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2656 describes a vulnerability in Polygen versions prior to 1.0.6, where precompiled grammar objects are created with world-writable permissions. This misconfiguration allows local users to cause a denial of service through excessive disk consumption and potentially engage in other unauthorized actions. With a CVSS score indicating low attack complexity and local access, the primary impact is partial availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:polygen:polygen:1.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
24.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0033 is in the 13th 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)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

debian.org / security/2005/dsa-794
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/14722