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CVE-2005-1043

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-1043 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in PHP versions prior to 4.3.11, affecting products from vendors like Apple, Conectiva, and SuSE. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash the server and consume memory by providing a specially crafted EXIF header with excessive IFD nesting, leading to significant stack recursion. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and no authentication required, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.93%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0193 is in the 66th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: php-0:4.3.2-23.ent
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: php-0:4.3.9-3.6
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-1043Moderate

security flaw

Mar 31, 2005

References

cvs.php.net / diff.php/php-src/ext/exif/exif.c
Vendor Advisory
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2005/Jun/msg00000.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Vendor Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10307
usn.ubuntu.com / 112-1
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200504-15.xml
PatchVendor Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-406.html
PatchVendor Advisory