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CVE-2005-1184
The TCP/IP stack in multiple operating systems allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a TCP packet…
Medium5.0EPSS 32.7%
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- mitre
Description
The TCP/IP stack in multiple operating systems allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a TCP packet with the correct sequence number but the wrong Acknowledgement number, which generates a large number of "keep alive" packets. NOTE: some followups indicate that this issue could not be replicated.
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)
- 32.7% · top 1.6% of all CVEs (4 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.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- 20050416 TCP/IP Stack Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 20050418 Re: TCP/IP Stack Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 13215 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20050418 Re: TCP/IP Stack Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- multiple-tcpip-dos(40502) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_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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