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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.9

CVE-2005-3981 json

NOTE: this issue has been disputed by third parties.

published 2005-12-04 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-3976

cvss
4.9
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.6%
EPSS 3.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

NOTE: this issue has been disputed by third parties. Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, and 2003 allows local users to kill a writable process by using the CreateRemoteThread function with certain arguments on a process that has been opened using the OpenProcess function, possibly involving an invalid address for the start routine. NOTE: followup posts have disputed this issue, saying that if a user already has privileges to write to a process, then other functions could be called or the process could be terminated using PROCESS_TERMINATE

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-26690)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

3.65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-26690 Microsoft Windows XP/2000/2003 - CreateRemoteThread Local Denial of Service dos, 2005-12-01
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15671/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.9 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

References

Sources

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