CVE-2005-1061

Logwatch vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

3.1%

EPSS pct

86th

Exploited

No known

The secure script in LogWatch before 2.6-2 allows attackers to prevent LogWatch from detecting malicious activity via certain strings in the secure file that are later used as part of a regular expression, which causes the parser to crash, aka "logwatch log processing regular expression DoS."

Affected vendor

Logwatch

Affected product

Logwatch

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Published

2005-05-02

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 availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 86% of all scored CVEs.

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