CVE-2005-2120

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

8.8

MODERATE

Vector

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

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

75.725

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB905749)	Windows
Security Update for Windows XP (KB905749)	Windows

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234