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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2005-1980 json

Distributed Transaction Controller in Microsoft Windows allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (MSDTC service hang) via a craft…

published 2005-10-11 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-1982

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
33.3%
EPSS 33.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Distributed Transaction Controller in Microsoft Windows allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (MSDTC service hang) via a crafted Transaction Internet Protocol (TIP) message that causes DTC to repeatedly connect to a target IP and port number after an error occurs, aka the "Distributed TIP Vulnerability."

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-1352)

Exploit prediction

33.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-1352 Microsoft Windows - DTC Remote (MS05-051) (2) remote, 2005-12-01

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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.