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CVE-2005-1122

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-1122 describes a format string vulnerability in the cgi.c component of the Monkey daemon (monkeyd) prior to version 0.9.1. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service and potentially execute arbitrary code by sending an HTTP GET request containing double-encoded format string specifiers. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered highly severe, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, with potential impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:monkey-project:monkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:monkey-project:monkey:0.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:monkey-project:monkey:0.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:monkey-project:monkey:0.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:monkey-project:monkey:0.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.69%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0269 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

gentoopatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/14953
PatchVendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200504-14.xml
PatchVendor Advisory
osvdb.org / 15511
Vendor Advisory