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CVE-2005-1213

77
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-1213 describes a stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Outlook Express (versions 5.5 SP2, 6, and 6 SP1) that allows remote malicious NNTP servers to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability is highly severe, with a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating it can be exploited remotely without authentication to achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While not listed on CISA's KEV, exploit modules exist in Metasploit and ExploitDB, suggesting readily available exploit code. Despite this, there is no recorded community discussion or media coverage, which is typical for the vast majority of CVEs.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook_express:5.5:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook_express:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook_express:6.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
73.96%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: MS05-030 Microsoft Outlook Express NNTP Response Parsing Buffer Overflow · Jun 14, 2005
ExploitDB: EDB-16379 · May 9, 2010
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.7396 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2005/ms05-030
securitytracker.com / id
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1088
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A167
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A989
idefense.com / application/poi/display
PatchVendor Advisory
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/130614
US Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/13951