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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2005-1543 in the critical feed json

Multiple stack-based and heap-based buffer overflows in Remote Management authentication (zenrem32.exe) on Novell ZENworks 6.5 Desktop and…

published 2005-05-25 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-1546

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
66.1%
EPSS 66.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.2%
public exploits
3
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

Multiple stack-based and heap-based buffer overflows in Remote Management authentication (zenrem32.exe) on Novell ZENworks 6.5 Desktop and Server Management, ZENworks for Desktops 4.x, ZENworks for Servers 3.x, and Remote Management allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) unspecified vectors, (2) type 1 authentication requests, and (3) type 2 authentication requests.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/windows/novell/zenworks_desktop_agent)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

66.10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.2% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

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.