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CVE-2005-0330

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0330 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in Painkiller versions 1.35 and earlier, potentially affecting other versions before 1.61. This flaw allows remote authenticated users to trigger a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code by submitting an excessively long CD-key hash. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, primarily leading to a denial of service. While not actively exploited in the wild and not on the KEV catalog, a Proof-of-Concept exploit for Painkiller 1.35 exists on ExploitDB, though there is no significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:people_can_fly:painkiller:1.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.3.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:people_can_fly:painkiller:1.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.49%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-783 · Feb 2, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0449 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 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 0.6 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

aluigi.altervista.org / adv/painkkeybof-adv.txt
marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/14113
Patch
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/19205
securityfocus.com / bid/12423
ExploitPatch