CVE-2005-1705: GNU Gdb

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

gdb before 6.3 searches the current working directory to load the .gdbinit configuration file, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands as the user running gdb.

Affected products

• GNU Gdb: up to and including 6.3

Published 2005-05-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.