CVE-2005-2579

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Aug 16, 2005
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Aug 16, 2005

Description

Nortel Contivity VPN Client V05_01.030, when configuring a certificate to be used as authentication, does not properly drop system privileges, which allows local users to gain privileges by opening a program with the File Open dialog box.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

20050810 Privilege escalation in Nortel Contivity VPN Client V05_01.030mailing-list

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