CVE-2005-0473

Gaim vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

3.5%

EPSS pct

88th

Exploited

No known

The HTML parsing functions in Gaim before 1.1.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via malformed HTML that causes "an invalid memory access," a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0208.

Affected vendor

Rob Flynn

Affected product

Gaim

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Published

2005-03-14

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Rob Flynn Gaim is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
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