VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2005-1792

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability6.88%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2005-06-01
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

Memory leak in Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) by creating security contexts more quickly than they can be cleared from the RPC cache.

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