THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2005-2972
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2005-2972

Community Abiword vulnerability

CVSS
5.1
EPSS
4.1%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the RTF import feature in AbiWord before 2.2.11 allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an RTF file with long identifiers, which are not properly handled in the (1) ParseLevelText, (2) getCharsInsideBrace, (3) HandleLists, (4) or (5) HandleAbiLists functions in ie_imp_RTF.cpp, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2964.
Affected vendor
Abisource
Affected product
Community Abiword
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2005-10-23

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 confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2005-2972

  • Confirm whether Abisource Community Abiword is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2005-2972.
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