CVE-2005-2454: IBM Lotus Notes

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Lotus Notes 6.5.4 and 6.5.5, and 7.0.0 and 7.0.1, uses insecure default permissions (Everyone/Full Control) for the "Notes" folder and all children, which allows local users to gain privileges and modify, add, or delete files in that folder.

Affected products

• IBM Lotus Notes: version 6.5.4 only; version 6.5.5 only; version 7.0.0 only; version 7.0.1 only

Published 2005-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.