Vulnerability in Sysinternals Process Explorer
CVE-2005-2679
Buffer overflow in Sysinternals Process Explorer 9.23, and other versions before 9.25, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long CompanyName field in the VersionInfo information in a running process.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.035 (88.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 89th percentile — 88.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.035 · newest: 0.035 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Sysinternals Process Explorer — versions 9.23.0.0
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/14616 (Exploit, vdb-entry)
- securitytracker.com/id (Exploit, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/16525 (third-party-advisory)
- www.sysinternals.com/Forum/forum_posts.asp