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CVE-2005-3183

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-3183 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the HTBoundary_put_block function of W3C libwww. Remote servers can exploit this by sending a specially crafted multipart/byteranges MIME message, leading to an out-of-bounds read and a segmentation fault. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and potential for partial availability impact, requiring network access but no authentication. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:w3c:libwww:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.10%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0210 is in the 66th percentile among its peer group of 19,954 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 4Fixed in: w3c-libwww-0:5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-3183Low

Multiple bugs in libwww - one exploitable - in Library/src/HTBound.c

Oct 7, 2005

References

ftp.sco.com / pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.10/SCOSA-2006.10.txt
bugzilla.redhat.com / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
ExploitVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/17119
secunia.com / advisories/17122
secunia.com / advisories/17489
secunia.com / advisories/17814
secunia.com / advisories/19193
secunia.com / advisories/25098
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9653
usn.ubuntu.com / 220-1
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2007-0208.html
securityfocus.com / advisories/9444
securityfocus.com / advisories/9445
securityfocus.com / bid/15035