Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2005-1989

57
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-1989 is an unknown vulnerability affecting Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0. It allows remote attackers to obtain information and potentially execute code when a user browses from a website to a WebDAV-enabled web folder view. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to potential compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no active exploitation is confirmed, an ExploitDB entry exists, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:6:windows_server_2003_sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.01CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
45.68%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-1144 · Aug 9, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.4568 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 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/ms05-038
secunia.com / advisories/16373
PatchVendor Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100081
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100082
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1319
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A697
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A790
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A888
securityfocus.com / bid/14512
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/1353