CVE-2005-1686

Gedit vulnerability

CVSS

2.6

EPSS

7.7%

EPSS pct

94th

Exploited

No known

Format string vulnerability in gedit 2.10.2 may allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a bin file with format string specifiers in the filename. NOTE: while this issue is triggered on the command line by the gedit user, it has been reported that web browsers and email clients could be configured to provide a file name as an argument to gedit, so there is a valid attack that crosses security boundaries.

Affected vendor

Gnome

Affected product

Gedit

CVSS vector

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

Published

2005-05-20

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 7.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

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