CVE-2005-2120

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Plug and Play (PnP) service (UMPNPMGR.DLL) in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, and XP SP1 and SP2, allows remote or local…

published October 13, 2005

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High probability of exploitation

NVD has not assigned a CVSS score to this record. It sits in the 99.2th percentile for exploit probability.

CVSS
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EPSS
62%
Percentile
99.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Plug and Play (PnP) service (UMPNPMGR.DLL) in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, and XP SP1 and SP2, allows remote or local authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large number of "\" (backslash) characters in a registry key name, which triggers the overflow in a wsprintfW function call.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.61971 · 99.2th percentile
Published
2005-10-13T04:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 OCT 04:00Z
    Stack-based buffer overflow in the Plug and Play (PnP) service (UMPNPMGR.DLL) in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, and XP SP1 and SP2, allows remote or local…
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