CVE-2005-3538
hfaxd in HylaFAX 4.2.3, when PAM support is disabled, accepts arbitrary passwords, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges.
02 Description
hfaxd in HylaFAX 4.2.3, when PAM support is disabled, accepts arbitrary passwords, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.47% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 84.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2006-01-06 11:00Z20 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 23:17Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2005-11-16
- Assigning CNA
- debian
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 5c8e93ce4e528091748fe0b8ef21dbf01d5a1cf2001df0b09ced7e8308110c72
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com18314http://secunia.com/advisories/18314
- secunia.com18337http://secunia.com/advisories/18337
- www.hylafax.orghttp://www.hylafax.org/content/HylaFAX_4.2.4_release
- www.gentoo.orgGLSA-200601-03http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200601-03.xml
- www.hylafax.org[hylafax-users] 20051212 Re: proceedure for hylafax setup for PAM authentiationhttp://www.hylafax.org/archive/2005-12/msg00119.php
- secunia.com18489http://secunia.com/advisories/18489
- www.securityfocus.com20060105 HylaFAX Security advisory - fixed in HylaFAX 4.2.4http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/420974/100/0/threaded
- bugs.hylafax.orghttp://bugs.hylafax.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=719
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-0072http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0072
- www.mandriva.comMDKSA-2006:015http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:015
- www.securityfocus.com16150http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16150
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- hylafax Fixed in 2:4.2.4-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- hylafax Fixed in 2:4.2.4-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- hylafax Fixed in 2:4.2.4-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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