CVE-2005-0416

highpriority · attend · 54EPSS 0.410 · 99 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

2 exploits · functional

Likely / severe?

41.0% (99th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

12 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.4

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-121USLLM-inferredCWE-20USLLM-inferred

exploits (2)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-765Microsoft Internet Explorer - '.ANI' Universal (MS05-002)functional · exploit_db
EDB-771Microsoft Internet Explorer - '.ANI' Downloader (MS05-002)functional · exploit_db

affected products (12)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
microsoft windows 2000all versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows 2003 server= enterprisenvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2003_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows 2003 server= enterprise_64-bitnvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2003_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows 2003 server= r2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2003_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows 2003 server= standardnvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2003_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows 2003 server= webnvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2003_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows 98all versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_98:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows 98seall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_98se:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows meall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_me:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows nt= 4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows xpall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2005-04-27modified 2026-06-16

references (12)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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