CVE-2005-0330
Buffer overflow in Painkiller 1.35 and earlier, and possibly other versions before 1.61, allows remote authenticated users to cause a…
- 2.1LowCVSS base score
- 4.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Buffer overflow in Painkiller 1.35 and earlier, and possibly other versions before 1.61, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long cd-key hash.
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.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Painkiller 1.35 - in-game cd-key alpha-numeric Buffer Overflow (PoC) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 783dos, windowspublished 2 Feb 2005Verified
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Timeline
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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 | Low2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.5% · top 8.4% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- 20050202 Limited buffer-overflow in Painkiller 1.35 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- painkiller-long-cdkey-bo(19205) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 12423 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 14113 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1013066 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/painkkeybof-adv.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2005-0331 (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-2005-0330)Record last updated .