CVE-2005-0457 — Opera 7.54 and earlier on Gentoo Linux uses an insecure path for plugins, which could allow local users to gain privileges by inserting malicious libraries into the PORTAGE_TMPDIR (portage) temporary directory

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Opera 7.54 and earlier on Gentoo Linux uses an insecure path for plugins, which could allow local users to gain privileges by inserting malicious libraries into the PORTAGE_TMPDIR (portage) temporary directory

Published Feb 17, 2005

7.2

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.41%

Description

Opera 7.54 and earlier on Gentoo Linux uses an insecure path for plugins, which could allow local users to gain privileges by inserting malicious libraries into the PORTAGE_TMPDIR (portage) temporary directory.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.41% 0.00406

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00406

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 2, 2026	0.41% (0.00406)	32.50th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.41% (0.00406)	32.07th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.04% (0.00038)	8.15th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-427

References (2)

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81747
x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party AdvisoryVendor Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-17.xml
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOPatchThird Party AdvisoryVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81747		x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party AdvisoryVendor Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-17.xml		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOPatchThird Party AdvisoryVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Feb 17, 2005

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Feb 17, 2005

Link CVE-2005-0457

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2005-0457

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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