CVE-2005-0966

mediumpriority · track · 27EPSS 0.025 · 84 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.48% (84th) EPSS

CVSS 6.4 · medium

Is it mine?

2 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

The IRC protocol plugin in Gaim 1.2.0, and possibly earlier versions, allows (1) remote attackers to inject arbitrary Gaim markup via irc_msg_kick, irc_msg_mode, irc_msg_part, irc_msg_quit, (2) remote attackers to inject arbitrary Pango markup and pop up empty dialog boxes via irc_msg_invite, or (3) malicious IRC servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by injecting certain Pango markup into irc_msg_badmode, irc_msg_banned, irc_msg_unknown, irc_msg_nochan functions.

cvss

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

6.4

010

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

v2.06.4mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 4.9

v2.05.4mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-20USLLM-inferredCWE-209USLLM-inferredCWE-79USLLM-inferred

affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
rob flynn gaim= 1.2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rob_flynn:gaim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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 2005-05-02modified 2026-06-16

references (24)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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