CVE-2005-4261 — Unspecified vulnerability in Positive Software Corporation CP+ (cpplus) before 2.5.5 allows attackers to have unknown impact and attack vectors, related to "a possible security flaw caused by a bug in Perl." NOTE: unless CP+ includes its own copy of Perl with CVE-2005-3962, this is a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-3962; however, there is insufficient information to be sure

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Unspecified vulnerability in Positive Software Corporation CP+ (cpplus) before 2.5.5 allows attackers to have unknown impact and attack vectors, related to "a possible security flaw caused by a bug in Perl." NOTE: unless CP+ includes its own copy of Perl with CVE-2005-3962, this is a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-3962; however, there is insufficient information to be sure

Published Dec 15, 2005

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.69%

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Positive Software Corporation CP+ (cpplus) before 2.5.5 allows attackers to have unknown impact and attack vectors, related to "a possible security flaw caused by a bug in Perl." NOTE: unless CP+ includes its own copy of Perl with CVE-2005-3962, this is a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-3962; however, there is insufficient information to be sure.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.69% 0.01685

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01685

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 (10 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.69% (0.01685)	76.17th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.69% (0.01685)	73.95th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.63% (0.00629)	68.50th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.36% (0.00359)	73.05th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.46% (0.00458)	74.56th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.46% (0.00458)	71.40th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.11% (0.01108)	55.18th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.11% (0.01108)	53.57th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.11% (0.01108)	51.54th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.11% (0.01108)	29.61th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (6)

http://cpplus.info/feature_25.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch
http://secunia.com/advisories/17975
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAPatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/18005
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15799
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0068/
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TRUSTIXVendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2828
vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN

Link	Providers	Tags
http://cpplus.info/feature_25.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch
http://secunia.com/advisories/17975		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAPatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/18005		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15799		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0068/		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TRUSTIXVendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2828		vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Dec 15, 2005

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Dec 15, 2005

Link CVE-2005-4261

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2005-4261

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2005-4261