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CVE-2005-1806

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-1806 describes a critical format string vulnerability in PeerCast versions 0.1211 and earlier, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by injecting malicious format strings into a URL. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog and showing no active community discussion or media coverage, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, suggesting a potential for exploitation despite its age.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.1211CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:peercast:peercast:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
11.94%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-43826 · May 28, 2015
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1194 is in the 93rd 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/15536
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/15753
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-15.xml
gulftech.org
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
peercast.org / forum/viewtopic.php
PatchVendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/0651