CVE-2005-0486: Tarantella Secure Global Desktop

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Tarantella Secure Global Desktop Enterprise Edition 4.00 and 3.42, and Tarantella Enterprise 3 3.40 and 3.30, when using RSA SecurID and multiple users have the same username, reveals sensitive information during authentication, which allows remote attackers to identify valid usernames and the authentication scheme.

Affected products

• Tarantella Secure Global Desktop: version enterprise_3.42 only; version enterprise_4.0 only
• Tarantella Tarantella Enterprise: version 3.30 only; version 3.40 only

Published 2005-03-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.