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high 7.5

CVE-2005-2841 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in Firewall Authentication Proxy for FTP and/or Telnet Sessions for Cisco IOS 12.2ZH and 12.2ZL, 12.3 and 12.3T, and 12.4 a…

published 21y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2005-2842

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
14.1%
EPSS 14.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in Firewall Authentication Proxy for FTP and/or Telnet Sessions for Cisco IOS 12.2ZH and 12.2ZL, 12.3 and 12.3T, and 12.4 and 12.4T allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted user authentication credentials.

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Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-26233)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

14.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-14).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-26233 Cisco IOS 12.x - Firewall Authentication Proxy Buffer Overflow dos, 2005-09-07

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

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Sources

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