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CVE-2005-0002

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0002 describes a critical vulnerability in gentoo poppassd_pam 1.0 and earlier, where the software fails to properly verify a user's old password during a password change operation. This flaw allows remote attackers to arbitrarily change passwords for any user. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:poppassd_pam:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0244 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

gentoovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

secunia.com / advisories/13865
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200501-22.xml
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id