CVE-2005-0478
Multiple buffer overflows in TrackerCam 5.12 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 66.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Multiple buffer overflows in TrackerCam 5.12 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) an HTTP request with a long User-Agent header or (2) a long argument to an arbitrary PHP script.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Metasploit modules1 module
- TrackerCam PHP Argument Buffer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/http/trackercam_phparg_overflowRank averagedisclosed 18 Feb 2005
Exploit-DB1 entry
- TrackerCam - PHP Argument Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16811remote, windowspublished 9 May 2010Verified
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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)
- 66.5% · top 0.7% 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
4
- trackercam-useragent-bo(19409) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20050218 Multiple vulnerabilities in TrackerCam 5.12 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- trackercam-php-bo(19411) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 12592 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-2005-0479 (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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