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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 16, 2005· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2005-2579

CVE-2005-2579

Description

Nortel Contivity VPN Client V05_01.030, when configuring a certificate to be used as authentication, does not properly drop system privileges, which allows local users to gain privileges by opening a program with the File Open dialog box.

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