CVE-2005-4533

Argument injection vulnerability in scponlyc in scponly 4.1 and earlier, when both scp and rsync compatibility are enabled, allows local users to execute arbitrary applications via "getopt" style argument specifications, which are not filtered.

Published: 2005-12-27 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2005-4533 is rated Moderate Risk (54.5/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.46%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2005-4533

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 2026-06-16 1.42% 1.46% +0.03%
2 2026-06-15 0.63% 1.42% +0.79%
3 2025-03-30 — 0.63% —

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2005-4533

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/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:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2005-4533

OS Trackers for CVE-2005-4533

vendor priority summary link
gentoo high CVE-2005-4533: 1 GLSA(s) (200512-17), 1 atom(s) (net-misc/scponly); latest impact high. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2005-4533
ubuntu medium CVE-2005-4533 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (scponly), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): released 3, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2005-4533

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2005-4533

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
scponly scponly 2.0 cpe:2.3:a:scponly:scponly:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
scponly scponly 2.1 cpe:2.3:a:scponly:scponly:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
scponly scponly 3.0 cpe:2.3:a:scponly:scponly:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
scponly scponly 3.5 cpe:2.3:a:scponly:scponly:3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
scponly scponly 3.8 cpe:2.3:a:scponly:scponly:3.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
scponly scponly 3.9 cpe:2.3:a:scponly:scponly:3.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
scponly scponly 3.11 cpe:2.3:a:scponly:scponly:3.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
scponly scponly 4.1 cpe:2.3:a:scponly:scponly:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2005-4533

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