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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

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 authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large number of "\" (backslash) characters in…

MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 62.0%

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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.

CVSS 2.0
6.5 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
61.97% probability · 99th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
microsoft/windows 2000 · microsoft/windows xp
Source
secure@microsoft.com

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.