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-2005-2297

69
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2297 describes a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Sybase EAServer versions 4.2.5 through 5.2, specifically within the TreeAction.do component. This flaw allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code by supplying an overly large 'javascript' parameter. While the CVSS score is 4.6, indicating a lower severity, its FAUCET Risk Score of 98/100 and EPSS percentile of 0.715290000 suggest a higher practical risk. Although not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, a Metasploit module exists for this vulnerability, demonstrating readily available exploit code, yet there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.2.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sybase:easerver:4.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sybase:easerver:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sybase:easerver:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sybase:easerver:5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.6MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
74.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Sybase EAServer 5.2 Remote Stack Buffer Overflow · Jul 25, 2005
ExploitDB: EDB-16766 · Jun 22, 2010
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.7420 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 3,048 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

marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/16108
securitytracker.com / id
spidynamics.com / spilabs/advisories/sybaseEAserverOverflow.htm
PatchVendor Advisory
sybase.com / detail
PatchVendor Advisory