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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2005-0045 in the critical feed json

The Server Message Block (SMB) implementation for Windows NT 4.0, 2000, XP, and Server 2003 does not properly validate certain SMB packets,…

published 2005-02-08 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-0046

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
70.3%
EPSS 70.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.3%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The Server Message Block (SMB) implementation for Windows NT 4.0, 2000, XP, and Server 2003 does not properly validate certain SMB packets, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via Transaction responses containing (1) Trans or (2) Trans2 commands, aka the "Server Message Block Vulnerability," and as demonstrated using Trans2 FIND_FIRST2 responses with large file name length fields.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-1065)

Exploit prediction

70.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-1065 Microsoft Windows - 'SMB' Transaction Response Handling (MS05-011) dos, 2005-06-23

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.