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CVE-2005-1792
Memory leak in Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 6.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Memory leak in Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) by creating security contexts more quickly than they can be cleared from the RPC cache.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
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)
- 6.9% · top 5.9% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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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
- 13801 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 13020 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 890196 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSKBx_transferred
- http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/windows-wmi-rpc.html (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-2005-1794 (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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