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CVE-2005-1262

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-1262 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Gaim version 1.2.1 and earlier, where a remote attacker can crash the application by sending a malformed MSN message. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with a low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a partial availability impact. 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
0.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rob_flynn:gaim:0.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.10.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rob_flynn:gaim:0.10.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.50CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rob_flynn:gaim:0.50:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.51CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rob_flynn:gaim:0.51:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.52CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rob_flynn:gaim:0.52:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.90%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0190 is in the 65th 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-1262Important

security flaw

May 11, 2005

References

gaim.sourceforge.net / security/index.php
PatchVendor Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10861
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-429.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / archive/1/426078/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/13591
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/0519