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CVE-2005-2851

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2851 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in smb4k versions prior to 0.6.3. An attacker can exploit this by using a symlink attack on temporary files (smb4k.tmp or sudoers) to read sensitive local files. This low-severity vulnerability (CVSS 2.1) requires local access and has a low impact, primarily allowing information disclosure. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:smb4k:smb4k:0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:smb4k:smb4k:0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:smb4k:smb4k:0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0036 is in the 36th 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/16724
secunia.com / advisories/17636
smb4k.berlios.de
Patch
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-15.xml
mandriva.com / security/advisories
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/14756
Patch