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CVE-2005-1741

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-1741 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Gearbox Software's Halo: Combat Evolved version 1.6. Remote attackers can trigger an infinite loop by sending malformed data to the game server. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, leading to a partial availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild and not on the KEV catalog, an exploit module for this specific issue is available on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding it.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gearbox_software:halo_combat_evolved:1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-25699 · May 24, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0350 is in the 84th 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

aluigi.altervista.org / adv/haloloop-adv.txt
Exploit
secunia.com / advisories/15501
securitytracker.com / id
securityfocus.com / archive/1/398833
securityfocus.com / bid/13728
Exploit
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/0616