Vulnerability in Yahoo Messenger

CVE-2005-1618

The YMSGR URL handler in Yahoo! Messenger 5.x through 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disconnect) via a room login or a room join request packet with a third : (colon) and an & (ampersand), which causes Messenger to send a corrupted packet to the server, which triggers a disconnect from the server.

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.032 (87.5th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 87.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2005-1618: held from 0.032 to 0.032.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.032 · newest: 0.032 · change: 0.000

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