Vulnerability in Tcp
CVE-2005-3675
The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bandwidth consumption) by sending ACK messages for packets that have not yet been received (optimistic ACKs), which can cause the sender to increase its transmission rate until it fills available bandwidth.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.023 (82.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 83rd percentile — 82.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.023 · newest: 0.023 · change: 0.000
Affected products
References
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/102014 (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.cs.umd.edu/~capveg/optack/optack-extended.pdf
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23055 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/15468/ (vdb-entry)