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CVE-2005-0550

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0550 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability affecting Microsoft Windows 2000, XP SP1/SP2, and Server 2003. This flaw allows a local attacker to trigger a denial of service, specifically a system crash, through a malformed request. With a CVSS score of 2.1, it is considered low severity, requiring local access and user interaction for exploitation, resulting only in availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
r2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2003_server:r2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*:sp1:tablet_pc:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*:sp2:tablet_pc:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.07%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0207 is in the 96th 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

docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2005/ms05-018
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1271
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2043
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A4397
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A4832