CVE-2005-4443: Gauche

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

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Gauche before 0.8.6-r1 on Gentoo Linux allows local users in the portage group to gain privileges via a malicious shared object in the Portage temporary build directory, which is part of the RUNPATH.

Affected products

• Gauche Gauche: version 0.8 only; version 0.8.1 only; version 0.8.2 only; version 0.8.3 only; version 0.8.4 only; version 0.8.5 only

Published 2005-12-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.