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Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-2005-0059 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in the Message Queuing component of Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary…

published 2005-04-13 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-0060

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
73.3%
EPSS 73.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.4%
public exploits
3
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in the Message Queuing component of Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted message.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/windows/dcerpc/ms05_017_msmq)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

73.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.4% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • Metasploit exploit/windows/dcerpc/ms05_017_msmq MS05-017 Microsoft Message Queueing Service Path Overflow metasploit exploit, good rank, 2005-04-12
  • EDB-16747 Microsoft Message Queueing Service - Path Overflow (MS05-017) (Metasploit) remote, 2010-05-09
  • EDB-1075 Microsoft Windows Message Queuing - Remote Buffer Overflow Universal (MS05-017) (v.0.3) remote, 2005-06-29

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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