VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2005-0356

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability82.76%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2005-05-31
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

Multiple TCP implementations with Protection Against Wrapped Sequence Numbers (PAWS) with the timestamps option enabled allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection loss) via a spoofed packet with a large timer value, which causes the host to discard later packets because they appear to be too old.

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