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CVE-2005-1656

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-1656 describes a vulnerability in Mercur Messaging 2005 SP2 that allows remote attackers to read the source code of .ctml files by appending a hex-encoded space to the URL. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and allows for information disclosure (confidentiality impact) with low attack complexity and no authentication required. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there any known public exploit tools like Metasploit or Nuclei modules, and it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2005_sp2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mercur:mercur_messaging:2005_sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0131 is in the 47th 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/15234
Exploit
osvdb.org / 16218