CVE-2005-1061 EXPLOIT
5.0
MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 3.1% (pctl 87)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
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."
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.0 (MEDIUM, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| EPSS | 3.07% — more likely to be exploited than 87% of all CVEs |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2005-05-02 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (3)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| logwatch | logwatch |
| redhat | enterprise linux |
| redhat | linux advanced workstation |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | Logwatch 2.6 Secure Script - Denial of Service | 2005-04-20 |
References
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