CVE-2005-1061

Exp

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."

Published: 2005-05-02 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2005-1061 is rated High Exploit Risk (62.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.07%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2005-1061

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
25465 exploit_db edb 2005-04-20 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2005-1061

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 5.67% 3.07% -2.60%
2 2026-01-30 3.90% 5.67% +1.77%
3 2025-12-23 — 3.90% —

Full EPSS history (13 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2005-1061

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2005-1061

OS Trackers for CVE-2005-1061

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2005-1061 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (logwatch), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-1061
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2005-1061
ubuntu medium CVE-2005-1061 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (logwatch), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): not-affected 3, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2005-1061

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2005-1061

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
logwatch logwatch 2.6.2 cpe:2.3:a:logwatch:logwatch:2.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_linux 2.1 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1:*:advanced_server:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_linux 2.1 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1:*:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_linux 2.1 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1:*:workstation:*:*:*:*:*
redhat linux_advanced_workstation 2.1 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux_advanced_workstation:2.1:*:itanium:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2005-1061

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