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CVE-2005-2992

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2992 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in arc 5.21j and earlier, allowing local users to overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack on temporary files. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1, indicating low attack complexity and impact, with no confidentiality or availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.21jCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:arc:arc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
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
28.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0036 is in the 33rd 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

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/fulldisclosure/2005-09/0535.html
Patch
marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/16805
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/17068
securityreason.com / securityalert/11
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-843
PatchVendor Advisory