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CVE-2005-2126
The FTP client in Windows XP SP1 and Server 2003, and Internet Explorer 6 SP1 on Windows 2000 SP4, when "Enable Folder View for FTP Sites"…
- 2.6LowCVSS base score
- 14.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The FTP client in Windows XP SP1 and Server 2003, and Internet Explorer 6 SP1 on Windows 2000 SP4, when "Enable Folder View for FTP Sites" is enabled and the user manually initiates a file transfer, allows user-assisted, remote FTP servers to overwrite files in arbitrary locations via crafted filenames.
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 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 | Low2.6 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 14.4% · top 3.4% 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: Low 2.6.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
11
- VU#415828 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-214.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1015036 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1284 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- MS05-044 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 17223 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1416 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1146 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 17172 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.securiteam.com/windowsntfocus/6M00I0KEAU.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 17163 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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-2005-2127 (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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