THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2005-0357
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2005-0357

Legato Networker vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
4.5%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
EMC Legato NetWorker, Sun Solstice Backup 6.0 and 6.1, and StorEdge Enterprise Backup 7.0 through 7.2 rely on AUTH_UNIX authentication, which relies on user ID for authentication and allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain privileges by spoofing a username or UID.
Affected vendor
Emc
Affected product
Legato Networker
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2005-08-23

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2005-0357

  • Confirm whether Emc Legato Networker is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2005-0357.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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