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CVE-2005-0583
Directory traversal vulnerability in Computer Associates (CA) License Client 0.1.0.15 allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 3.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in Computer Associates (CA) License Client 0.1.0.15 allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files via .. (dot dot) sequences in a PUTOLF request.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.8% · top 9.8% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
3
- 20050302 License Patches Are Now Available To Address Buffer Overflows (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://supportconnectw.ca.com/public/ca_common_docs/security_notice.asp (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20050302 Computer Associates License Client PUTOLF Directory Traversal (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2005-0584 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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