CVE-2005-3538

HIGH 7.5CVE-2005-3538 · Published 31/12/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-3538 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting hylafax (ifax solutions).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.5%, higher than 84.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
hylafax ifax_solutions	`= 4.2.3`	No fix yet

hfaxd in HylaFAX 4.2.3, when PAM support is disabled, accepts arbitrary passwords, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges.

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