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CVE-2005-0473

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0473 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Gaim versions prior to 1.1.3, affecting products from Mandrakesoft, Red Hat, and Rob Flynn. Malformed HTML can trigger an invalid memory access, causing the application to crash. With a CVSS score of 5.0 and an EPSS score of 0.20642, this vulnerability is considered medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no publicly available exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and no community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rob_flynn:gaim:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rob_flynn:gaim:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rob_flynn:gaim:1.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rob_flynn:gaim:1.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0348 is in the 84th 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-0473Important

security flaw

Feb 17, 2005

References

distro.conectiva.com.br / atualizacoes
gaim.sourceforge.net / security/index.php
marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/14322
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/19381
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10212
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-03.xml
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/523888
PatchThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-215.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / archive/1/426078/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/12589