VDB-27403 · CVE-2005-4151 · BID 15784

pgp desktop home 8.0 information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in pgp desktop home 8.0. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown part. This manipulation causes information disclosure. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2005-4151. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in pgp desktop home 8.0. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

the wipe free space utility in pgp desktop home 8.0 and desktop professional 9.0.3 build 2932 and earlier does not clear file slack space in the last cluster for the file which allows local users to access the previous contents of the disk.

The weakness was presented 12/10/2005 by Vinnie Liu with MetaSploit (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2005-4151 since 12/10/2005. The exploitation appears to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

After before and not just, there has been an exploit disclosed. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at SecurityFocus (BID 15784†), OSVDB (21569†) and Secunia (SA17827†). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.0

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

12/08/2005 🔍
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03/11/2015 +3378 days 🔍
07/26/2017 +868 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Researcher: Vinnie Liu
Organization: MetaSploit
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2005-4151 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-4151
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-27403
SecurityFocus: 15784
Secunia: 17827 - PGP Desktop Wipe Free Space Security Issue, Less Critical
OSVDB: 21569 - PGP Desktop Wipe Free Space Failure

Entryinfo

Created: 03/11/2015 23:39
Updated: 07/26/2017 23:44
Changes: 03/11/2015 23:39 (48), 07/26/2017 23:44 (10)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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