VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2005-2120
CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability61.97%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2005-10-13
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
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.
Primary references
- secure@microsoft.com — Patch, Vendor Advisory
- secure@microsoft.com
- secure@microsoft.com
- secure@microsoft.com
- secure@microsoft.com — Patch
- secure@microsoft.com
- secure@microsoft.com — Patch, Vendor Advisory
- secure@microsoft.com — Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- secure@microsoft.com
- secure@microsoft.com — Exploit, Patch
- secure@microsoft.com — Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- secure@microsoft.com