CVE-2005-3755

Mini Search Appliance vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

3.6%

EPSS pct

88th

Exploited

No known

Directory traversal vulnerability in Google Mini Search Appliance, and possibly Google Search Appliance, allows remote attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary files via a relative path from a style sheet directory, then comparing the resulting error messages.

Affected vendor

Google

Affected product

Mini Search Appliance

CVSS vector

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

Published

2005-11-22

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.

Its EPSS score of 3.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2005-3755

Confirm whether Google Mini Search Appliance is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2005-3755.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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