CVE-2004-1305
The Windows Animated Cursor (ANI) capability in Windows NT, Windows 2000 through SP4, Windows XP through SP1, and Windows 2003 allow…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 58.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The Windows Animated Cursor (ANI) capability in Windows NT, Windows 2000 through SP4, Windows XP through SP1, and Windows 2003 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via (1) the frame number set to zero, which causes an invalid memory address to be used and leads to a kernel crash, or (2) the rate number set to zero, which leads to resource exhaustion and hang.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits1
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Microsoft Windows Kernel - '.ANI' File Parsing Crash (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 721dos, windowspublished 25 Dec 2004Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 16 days later
· 16 days later
Published
- 20 years later
· 20 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 58.6% · top 0.9% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
12
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:712 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2580 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- VU#697136 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- MS05-002 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- http://www.xfocus.net/flashsky/icoExp/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:3216 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 20041223 Microsoft Windows Kernel ANI File Parsing Crash and DOS Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- win-ani-ratenumber-dos(18667) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- TA05-012A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- VU#177584 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1304 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:3957 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2004-1302 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2004-1305)Record last updated .