CVE-2005-0356
Multiple TCP implementations with Protection Against Wrapped Sequence Numbers (PAWS) with the timestamps option enabled allow remote…
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- certcc
Description
Multiple TCP implementations with Protection Against Wrapped Sequence Numbers (PAWS) with the timestamps option enabled allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection loss) via a spoofed packet with a large timer value, which causes the host to discard later packets because they appear to be too old.
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.
Exploit-DB1 entry
- TCP TIMESTAMPS - Denial of Service (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 1008dos, multiplepublished 21 May 2005Verified
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 certcc
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 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)
- 82.8% · top 0.3% 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.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- tcp-ip-timestamp-dos(20635) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 15393 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- VU#637934 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 15417 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 18662 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 13676 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20050518 Vulnerability in a Variant of the TCP Timestamps Option (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred
- 18222 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-032.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2005-0357 (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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