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CVE-2005-3779

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-3779 describes an unspecified local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting xterm on HP-UX versions 11.00, 11.11, and 11.23. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), this vulnerability is considered highly severe, allowing an unauthenticated local attacker to gain full control over the system with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
11.00CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:11.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:11.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.23CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:11.23:*:ia64_64-bit:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.2HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.49%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
39.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0049 is in the 60th percentile among its peer group of 3,241 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/17545
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/23161
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1461
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A598
securityfocus.com / bid/15412
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/2414
Vendor Advisory