Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2005-1280

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-1280 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in tcpdump versions 3.9.1 and earlier, specifically within the rsvp_print function. An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger an infinite loop by sending a specially crafted RSVP packet of length 4. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and a partial impact on availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:lbl:tcpdump:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
10.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-956 · Apr 26, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1019 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: tcpdump-14:3.7.2-7.E3.5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: tcpdump-14:3.8.2-9.RHEL4
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-1280Moderate

security flaw

Apr 26, 2005

References

ftp.sco.com / pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.60/SCOSA-2005.60.txt
secunia.com / advisories/15125
secunia.com / advisories/18146
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10732
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-417.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-421.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/396930
Exploit
securityfocus.com / archive/1/430292/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/13390