CVE-2005-2224

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2224 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Microsoft ASP.NET web services, specifically affecting the aspnet_wp.exe process. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by sending a specially crafted SOAP message to an RPC/Encoded method, leading to an infinite loop and high CPU consumption. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity) with an availability impact, but no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:asp.net:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
17.92%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1792 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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/16005
Not ApplicableVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/14217
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
spidynamics.com / spilabs/advisories/aspRCP.html
Broken LinkExploitVendor Advisory