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CVE-2005-2102

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2102 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the AIM/ICQ module of Gaim versions prior to 1.5.0. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by sending a filename containing invalid UTF-8 characters, causing the application to crash. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it is a low-severity vulnerability with no known active exploits, public exploit code, or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rob_flynn:gaim:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rob_flynn:gaim:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rob_flynn:gaim:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rob_flynn:gaim:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rob_flynn:gaim:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.89%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0189 is in the 65th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 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-2005-2102Low

security flaw

Aug 8, 2005

References

gaim.sourceforge.net / security
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9283
usn.ubuntu.com / 168-1
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2005_19_sr.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-627.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/426078/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/14531