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CVE-2005-2176

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2176 describes a vulnerability in Novell NetMail where the application automatically processes HTML content within attachments without user interaction, facilitating web-based attacks and cookie theft. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.4) has a low attack complexity and requires no authentication, potentially leading to partial confidentiality and integrity impacts. While not on the KEV catalog or Hot List, an ExploitDB entry exists (EDB-25948) detailing automatic script execution, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:novell:netmail:3.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.3aCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:novell:netmail:3.0.3a:a:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.3aCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:novell:netmail:3.0.3a:b:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:novell:netmail:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:novell:netmail:3.1:f:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.4MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-25948 · Jul 6, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0350 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/15962
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
support.novell.com / cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi
support.novell.com / cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi
support.novell.com / cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi
osvdb.org / 17821
securityfocus.com / bid/14171
Exploit
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/0994