VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2005-1061
CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability3.07%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2005-05-02
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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."
Primary references
- secalert@redhat.com — Vendor Advisory
- secalert@redhat.com
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Vendor Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108