CVE-2005-2656 — Polygen before 1.0.6 generates precompiled grammar objects with world-writable permissions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) and possibly perform other unauthorized activities

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Polygen before 1.0.6 generates precompiled grammar objects with world-writable permissions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) and possibly perform other unauthorized activities

Published Sep 6, 2005

2.1

LOW

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.33%

Description

Polygen before 1.0.6 generates precompiled grammar objects with world-writable permissions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) and possibly perform other unauthorized activities.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.33% 0.00326

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

EPSS probability 0.00326

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	0.33% (0.00326)	23.39th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.33% (0.00326)	24.11th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.04% (0.00044)	10.57th	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 (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (2)

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-794
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14722
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-794		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14722		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner debian

Published Sep 6, 2005

Updated Sep 17, 2024

Reserved Aug 22, 2005

Link CVE-2005-2656

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2005-2656

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2005-2656