CVE-2005-0687 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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: 2005-03-08

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: 2.1% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:hashcash:hashcash:1.14:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:hashcash:hashcash:1.15:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:hashcash:hashcash:1.16:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2005-0688	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.02051.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83541
http://secunia.com/advisories/14487
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-12.xml

History

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Subscriptions

Hashcash Hashcash

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-03-08T05:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T21:21:06.509Z

Reserved: 2005-03-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-0687

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-03-06T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2005-0687

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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