CVE-2005-2596 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the User.php component of Gallery, specifically when used within Postnuke. This flaw allows any user with existing administrative privileges to gain unauthorized access to all galleries. With a CVSS score of 4.6 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P), it indicates a low-complexity local attack that could lead to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
1.3.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gallery_project:gallery:1.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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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.