CVE-2005-1122

critical

Description

Format string vulnerability in cgi.c for Monkey daemon (monkeyd) before 0.9.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via an HTTP GET request containing double-encoded format string specifiers (aka "double expansion error").

References

http://www.osvdb.org/15511

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200504-14.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/14953

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87916

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-04-14

Updated: 2024-11-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical