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CVE-2005-0158

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0158 describes a format string vulnerability in Bidwatcher versions prior to 1.3.17. This flaw allows remote, malicious or spoofed eBay web servers to trigger a denial of service and potentially execute arbitrary code through specially crafted responses. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered highly severe, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, with potential impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bidwatcher:bidwatcher:1.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bidwatcher:bidwatcher:1.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bidwatcher:bidwatcher:1.1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bidwatcher:bidwatcher:1.1.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bidwatcher:bidwatcher:1.1.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.91%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0191 is in the 61st percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

debian.org / security/2005/dsa-687
PatchVendor Advisory
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-06.xml
Patch