CVE-2005-2120

medium · 6.5

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Plug and Play (PnP) service (UMPNPMGR.DLL) in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, and XP SP1 and SP2, allows remote or local authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large number of "\" (backslash) characters in a registry key name, which triggers the overflow in a wsprintfW function call.

6.5

CVSS

62.0%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

99th

EPSS percentile

2005-10-13

Published

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

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
microsoft	windows_2000	all versions
microsoft	windows_xp	all versions
microsoft	windows_xp	all versions

Check a specific version with /api/v1/cve/match.

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/17166
http://secunia.com/advisories/17172
http://secunia.com/advisories/17223
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/71
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015042
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-214.pdf
http://www.eeye.com/html/research/advisories/AD20051011c.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/214572
http://www.osvdb.org/18830
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15065
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-284A.html
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2005/ms05-047
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1244
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1328
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1519
http://secunia.com/advisories/17166
http://secunia.com/advisories/17172
http://secunia.com/advisories/17223
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/71
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015042
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-214.pdf
http://www.eeye.com/html/research/advisories/AD20051011c.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/214572
http://www.osvdb.org/18830
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15065

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2005-2120