Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2005-0090

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0090 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, specifically a regression error in the kernel's 4GB/4GB split patch that omits an access check. This allows local users to crash the system. With a CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it is a low-severity vulnerability requiring local access with low attack complexity, leading only to availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating a low-profile and unexploited status.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.0:*:advanced_server:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.0:*:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.0:*:workstation:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
32.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 53rd 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)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: kernel-0:2.6.9-5.0.3.EL
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-0090Important

security flaw

Feb 18, 2005

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/20618
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10425
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-092.html
securityfocus.com / bid/12599
Vendor Advisory