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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2005-0058 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in the Telephony Application Programming Interface (TAPI) for Microsoft Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000…

published 2005-08-10 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-0059

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
46.0%
EPSS 46.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in the Telephony Application Programming Interface (TAPI) for Microsoft Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 allows attackers to elevate privileges or execute arbitrary code via a crafted message.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-1584)

Exploit prediction

46.02% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-1584 Microsoft Windows - Telephony Service Command Execution (MS05-040) local, 2006-03-14

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.