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CVE-2005-0277

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0277 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the FTP service of 3Com 3CDaemon 2.0 revision 10. This flaw allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code by supplying overly long input to the USER command or other FTP commands like cd, send, or ls. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity leading to partial availability impact. While not on the KEV catalog, exploit modules are publicly available in Metasploit and ExploitDB, suggesting a high potential for exploitation despite minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:3com:3cdaemon:2.0:revision_10:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
61.91%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: 3Com 3CDaemon 2.0 FTP Username Overflow · Jan 4, 2005
ExploitDB: EDB-16730 · Sep 20, 2010
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.6191 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 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, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

marc.info
marc.info
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/18754
securityfocus.com / bid/12155
Exploit