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CVE-2005-1269

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-1269 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Gaim versions prior to 1.3.1, specifically affecting the Yahoo! messaging protocol. An unauthenticated remote attacker could crash the application by sending a message containing non-ASCII characters in a file name. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and potential for 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
2.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0248 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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-2005-1269Moderate

security flaw

Jun 9, 2005

References

gaim.sourceforge.net / security
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200506-11.xml
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A744
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9544
usn.ubuntu.com / 139-1
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-734
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-518.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/426078/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/13931