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CVE-2005-2641
Unknown vulnerability in pam_ldap before 180 does not properly handle a new password policy control, which could allow attackers to gain…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 3.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 10% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Unknown vulnerability in pam_ldap before 180 does not properly handle a new password policy control, which could allow attackers to gain privileges. NOTE: CVE-2005-2497 had also been assigned to this issue, but CVE-2005-2641 is the correct candidate.
Timeline
ID reserved
By debian
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 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.6% · top 10% 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: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-680 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20061005 rPSA-2006-0183-1 nss_ldap (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-August/msg00170.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 17270 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- MDKSA-2005:190 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- VU#778916 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 14649 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2005:767 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 17233 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10370 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_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-2005-2642 (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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