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-2005-2557

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2557 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mantis Bug Tracker versions 0.19.0a1 through 1.0.0a3, specifically within the view_all_set.php component, allowing remote attackers to inject malicious web script or HTML via the 'dir' parameter. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and requiring no authentication, with potential for partial integrity impact. While no active exploitation is noted, exploit code is available on ExploitDB, and there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.19.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mantis:mantis:0.19.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.19.0_rc1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mantis:mantis:0.19.0_rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.19.0a1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mantis:mantis:0.19.0a1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.19.0a2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mantis:mantis:0.19.0a2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.19.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mantis:mantis:0.19.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.58%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-26172 · Aug 19, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0258 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/16506
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/21958
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-778
PatchVendor Advisory
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-16.xml
PatchVendor Advisory
mantisbt.org / changelog.php
securityfocus.com / bid/14604
ExploitPatch