CVE-2005-3346
Buffer overflow in the environment variable substitution code in main.c in OSH 1.7-14 allows local users to inject arbitrary environment…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 0.85%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 42% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Buffer overflow in the environment variable substitution code in main.c in OSH 1.7-14 allows local users to inject arbitrary environment variables, such as LD_PRELOAD, via pathname arguments of the form "$VAR/EVAR=arg", which cause the EVAR portion to be appended to a buffer returned by a getenv function call.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Operator Shell (OSH) 1.7-14 - Local Privilege Escalation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 1300local, linuxpublished 9 Nov 2005Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By debian
- 24 days later
· 24 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)
- 0.85% · top 42% of all CVEs (9 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
9
- 20720 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- osh-main-execute-code(23091) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 17967 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=338312 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-918 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 15370 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 17527 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://pulltheplug.org/users/core/files/x_osh3.sh (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- ADV-2005-2378 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_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-2005-3345 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2005-3346)Record last updated .