Vulnerability in Hashcash
CVE-2005-0687
Format string vulnerability in Hashcash 1.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a reply address, which is not properly handled when printing the header.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.029 (86.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 86th percentile — 86.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.029 · newest: 0.029 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Hashcash — versions 1.14, 1.15, 1.16
References
- secunia.com/advisories/14487 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-12.xml (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Vendor Advisory)