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CVE-2005-3960

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-3960 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Kadu versions 0.4.2 and 0.5.0pre, where a remote attacker can crash the application or generate excessive traffic using a malformed message. With a CVSS score of 7.8, this vulnerability is considered high severity due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and complete impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor is exploit code publicly available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it has received negligible community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kadu:kadu:0.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.5_preCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kadu:kadu:0.5_pre:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.03%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0203 is in the 63rd percentile among its peer group of 51,466 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/17764
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/23258
osvdb.org / 21215
securityfocus.com / archive/1/417920/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/15620
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/2648