THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2005-1928
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2005-1928

Serverprotect Earthagent vulnerability

CVSS
7.8
EPSS
3.7%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
Trend Micro ServerProtect EarthAgent for Windows Management Console 5.58 and possibly earlier versions, when running with Trend Micro Control Manager 2.5 and 3.0, and Damage Cleanup Server 1.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a flood of crafted packets with a certain "magic value" to port 5005, which also leads to a memory leak.
Affected vendor
Trend Micro
Affected product
Serverprotect Earthagent
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2005-12-14

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 3.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2005-1928

  • Confirm whether Trend Micro Serverprotect Earthagent is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2005-1928.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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