CVE-2005-2759
** SPLIT ** The jlucaller program in LiveUpdate for Symantec Norton AntiVirus 9.0.3 on Macintosh runs setuid when executing Java programs,…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 0.42%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 64% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
** SPLIT ** The jlucaller program in LiveUpdate for Symantec Norton AntiVirus 9.0.3 on Macintosh runs setuid when executing Java programs, which allows local users to gain privileges. NOTE: due to a CNA error, this candidate was also originally assigned to an issue in DiskMountNotify. Use CVE-2005-3270 for the DiskMountNotify issue, and CVE-2005-2759 for the LiveUpdate issue.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 50 days later
· 50 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 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.42% · top 64% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- 1015083 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20051020 Symantec Norton AntiVirus LiveUpdate Local Privilege Escalation (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
- http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2005.10.19a.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 17268 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 15142 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-2005-2760 (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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