CVE-2005-0278

The FTP service in 3Com 3CDaemon 2.0 revision 10 allows remote attackers to gain sensitive information via a cd command that contains an MS-DOS device name, which reveals the installation path in an error message.

CVSS 5.0 · Medium

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Metadata

Canonical fields

NVD status

Unavailable

Published

May 2, 2005

Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Official record

Authoritative NVD record

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CWE IDs

Unavailable

Vendor classifications

How this vector reads

CVSS 2.0 base metrics decoded below. This explanation does not recalculate or change the NVD score.

Access Vector (AV): Network. The vulnerable system can be reached across network boundaries.
Access Complexity (AC): Low. No special conditions beyond the attacker-controlled steps are required.
Authentication (Au): None. The attacker does not need to authenticate.
Confidentiality Impact (C): Partial. There is a limited impact to this security property.
Integrity Impact (I): None. There is no impact to this security property.
Availability Impact (A): None. There is no impact to this security property.

Signals

Exploitation indicators

0 stored signals · no KEV · 0 OTX pulses