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CVE-2005-0416
The Windows Animated Cursor (ANI) capability in Windows NT, Windows 2000 through SP4, Windows XP through SP1, and Windows 2003 allows…
High7.5EPSS 41.0%
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- Updated
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- mitre
Description
The Windows Animated Cursor (ANI) capability in Windows NT, Windows 2000 through SP4, Windows XP through SP1, and Windows 2003 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the AnimationHeaderBlock length field, which leads to a stack-based buffer overflow.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 41.0% · top 1.3% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- MS05-002 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 20050111 EEYE: Windows ANI File Parsing Buffer Overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20050112 Windows ANI File Parsing Proof Of Concept (MS05-002) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://eeye.com/html/research/advisories/AD20050111.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- win-user32-aniheader-overflow(18879) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 12233 (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)
- 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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