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CVE-2005-0803

59
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0803 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the GDI32.DLL of Microsoft Windows 2000. Specifically, a crafted Enhanced Metafile (EMF) can cause an application crash by providing invalid offset values to the GetEnhMetaFilePaletteEntries API. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and no authentication required, leading to a partial availability impact. Its FAUCET Risk Score is high at 98/100, and its EPSS score suggests a higher-than-average likelihood of exploitation compared to other CVEs. While there is no evidence of active exploitation in the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, and it was addressed in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-053. Despite this, there is no significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:sp4:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
67.69%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-1346 · Nov 30, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.6769 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 23,684 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, 0.0 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

marc.info
docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2005/ms05-053
secunia.com / advisories/14631
secunia.com / advisories/17223
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/17461
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/19727
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1121
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1152
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1215
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1240
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A671
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-228.pdf
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/134756
US Government Resource
osvdb.org / 20580
securityfocus.com / bid/12834
Exploit
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA05-312A.html
US Government Resource
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/2348
Vendor Advisory