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CVE-2005-2527

10
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2527 describes a race condition in Sun Java 1.4.2 before Release 2 on Apple Mac OS X, allowing local users to corrupt or create arbitrary files. This vulnerability, likely a symlink attack related to temporary directories, has a low CVSS score of 1.2, indicating low impact (partial integrity) and high attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, suggesting it is not a current threat.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.4.2_release1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:java:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

1.2LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
24.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0032 is in the 34th percentile among its peer group of 747 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 0.2 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

docs.info.apple.com / article.html
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2005/Sep/msg00001.html
secunia.com / advisories/16808
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/22262
ciac.org / ciac/bulletins/p-306.shtml
securityfocus.com / bid/14825
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/1734