CVE-2005-1792

2005-06-0104:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

AI Score

6.5

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.005

Percentile

76.2%

JSON

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.

References

support.microsoft.com/kb/890196

www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/windows-wmi-rpc.html

www.osvdb.org/13020

www.securityfocus.com/bid/13801