CVE-2005-2582 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Unix/Linux File Servers 5.0-5. The software uses world-writable permissions for its log and license directories, allowing local users to delete log files, append to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on kavmonitor.log, or delete license keys, disrupting the keepup2date function. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 3.6, indicating low attack complexity and impact, primarily affecting integrity and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
5.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:kaspersky_lab:kaspersky_anti-virus:5.0.5:*:linux_servers:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
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