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CVE-2005-2970

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2970 describes a memory leak vulnerability in the worker MPM of Apache 2, specifically affecting products from Apache, Canonical, Fedora Project, and Red Hat. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service by causing memory consumption through aborted connections, preventing the reuse of transaction pool memory. With a CVSS score of 5.0, it is considered a medium severity vulnerability, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, leading to a potential impact of partial availability loss. Despite its age, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 2.0.36, < 2.0.55CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:http_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
14.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1419 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: httpd-0:2.0.46-56.ent
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: httpd-0:2.0.52-22.ent
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-2970Low

security flaw

Oct 25, 2005

References

mail-archives.apache.org / mod_mbox/httpd-cvs/200509.mbox/%3C20051001110218.40692.qmail%40minotaur.apache.org%3E
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2006-0159.html
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/16559
Not Applicable
secunia.com / advisories/17923
Not Applicable
secunia.com / advisories/18161
Not Applicable
secunia.com / advisories/18333
Not Applicable
secunia.com / advisories/18585
Not Applicable
securitytracker.com / id
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
lists.apache.org / thread.html/54a42d4b01968df1117cea77fc53d6beb931c0e05936ad02af93e9ac%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/5df9bfb86a3b054bb985a45ff9250b0332c9ecc181eec232489e7f79%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r0276683d8e1e07153fc8642618830ac0ade85b9ae0dc7b07f63bb8fc%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r2cb985de917e7da0848c440535f65a247754db8b2154a10089e4247b%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r5001ecf3d6b2bdd0b732e527654248abb264f08390045d30709a92f6%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r652fc951306cdeca5a276e2021a34878a76695a9f3cfb6490b4a6840%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r8828e649175df56f1f9e3919938ac7826128525426e2748f0ab62feb%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r9e8622254184645bc963a1d47c5d47f6d5a36d6f080d8d2c43b2b142%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r9f93cf6dde308d42a9c807784e8102600d0397f5f834890708bf6920%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rafd145ba6cd0a4ced113a5823cdaff45aeb36eb09855b216401c66d6%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/reb542d2038e9c331506e0cbff881b47e40fbe2bd93ff00979e60cdf7%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rf6449464fd8b7437704c55f88361b66f12d5b5f90bcce66af4be4ba9%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10043
Third Party Advisory
svn.apache.org / viewcvs
Vendor Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-225-1
Third Party Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Broken Link
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2005_28_sr.html
Broken Link
redhat.com / archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-January/msg00060.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / archive/1/425399/100/0/threaded
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securityfocus.com / bid/15762
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry