CVE-2005-2225

Published Jul 12, 2005

Last updated 9 months ago

Overview

Description: Microsoft MSN Messenger allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a plaintext message containing the ".pif" string, which is interpreted as a malicious file extension and causes users to be kicked from a group conversation. NOTE: it has been reported that Gaim is also affected, so this may be an issue in the protocol or MSN servers.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 5
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 10
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:msn_messenger_service:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "A9FDD3E9-B2FB-40C3-938B-0280C2F3E1E0"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References