CVE-2005-4525: Sygate Technologies Protection Agent

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

SmcGui.exe in Sygate Protection Agent 5.0 build 6144 allows local users to obtain management control over the agent by executing the GUI (SmcGui.exe) and then killing the process, which causes the privileged management GUI to launch.

Affected products

• Sygate Technologies Protection Agent: version 5.0_build_6144 only

Published 2005-12-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.