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high 7.5

CVE-2005-1213 in the critical feed json

Stack-based buffer overflow in the news reader for Microsoft Outlook Express (MSOE.DLL) 5.5 SP2, 6, and 6 SP1 allows remote malicious NNTP…

published 2005-06-14 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-1216

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
74.0%
EPSS 74.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.4%
public exploits
3
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

Stack-based buffer overflow in the news reader for Microsoft Outlook Express (MSOE.DLL) 5.5 SP2, 6, and 6 SP1 allows remote malicious NNTP servers to execute arbitrary code via a LIST response with a long second field.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/windows/nntp/ms05_030_nntp)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

73.96% 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/nntp/ms05_030_nntp MS05-030 Microsoft Outlook Express NNTP Response Parsing Buffer Overflow metasploit exploit, normal rank, 2005-06-14
  • EDB-16379 Microsoft Outlook Express - NNTP Response Parsing Buffer Overflow (MS05-030) (Metasploit) remote, 2010-05-09
  • EDB-1066 Microsoft Outlook Express - NNTP Buffer Overflow (MS05-030) remote, 2005-06-24

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

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