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CVE-2005-2665

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2665 describes a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Elm 2.5 PL5 through PL7, and potentially other versions, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. This critical vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity, as it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity and no authentication, leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists (EDB-1171), though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.5_pl5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elm_development_group:elm:2.5_pl5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.5_pl6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elm_development_group:elm:2.5_pl6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.5_pl7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elm_development_group:elm:2.5_pl7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
15.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-1171 · Aug 22, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1526 is in the 95th 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-2665Critical

security flaw

Aug 20, 2005

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/fulldisclosure/2005-08/0688.html
Patch
marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/16508
secunia.com / advisories/16554
secunia.com / advisories/17475
securitytracker.com / id
Patch
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-15.xml
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-755.html
securityfocus.com / advisories/9670
securityfocus.com / bid/14613
securityfocus.com / bid/15117
slackware.org / security/viewer.php
slackware.org / security/viewer.php