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CVE-2005-0072

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0072 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in zhcon versions prior to 0.2, where the application fails to drop privileges before reading user configuration files. This flaw allows local users to read arbitrary files on the system. With a CVSS score of 2.1, this is a low-severity vulnerability requiring local access (AV:L) with low attack complexity (AC:L), primarily impacting confidentiality (C:P) by enabling unauthorized file disclosure. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, though the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ejoy_and_hu_yong:zhcon:0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
38.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0048 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

secunia.com / advisories/13977
secunia.com / advisories/13982
secunia.com / advisories/13987
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/19045
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-655
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
securityfocus.com / bid/12343