CVE-2005-0539 describes an unspecified local privilege escalation vulnerability in IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC) versions prior to 4.4, specifically impacting POWER5 servers. With a CVSS score of 4.6, this vulnerability is considered medium severity, requiring local access (AV:L) and low attack complexity (AC:L) to achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:P/I:P/A:P). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:hardware_management_console:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:hardware_management_console:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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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 records are not available for this CVE.