CVE-2005-1543

highpriority · attend · 63EPSS 0.661 · 99 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

3 exploits · functional

Likely / severe?

66.1% (99th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

8 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Multiple stack-based and heap-based buffer overflows in Remote Management authentication (zenrem32.exe) on Novell ZENworks 6.5 Desktop and Server Management, ZENworks for Desktops 4.x, ZENworks for Servers 3.x, and Remote Management allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) unspecified vectors, (2) type 1 authentication requests, and (3) type 2 authentication requests.

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-122USLLM-inferred

exploits (3)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-1150Novell ZENworks 6.5 - Desktop/Server Management Remote Stack Overflow (Metasploit)functional · exploit_db
EDB-16815Novell ZENworks 6.5 - Desktop/Server Management Overflow (Metasploit)functional · exploit_db
exploit/windows/novell/zenworks_desktop_agentNovell ZENworks 6.5 Desktop/Server Management Overflowfunctional · metasploit

affected products (8)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
novell zenworks= 6.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:novell:zenworks:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
novell zenworks desktops= 3.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:novell:zenworks_desktops:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
novell zenworks desktops= 4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:novell:zenworks_desktops:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
novell zenworks desktops= 4.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:novell:zenworks_desktops:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
novell zenworks remote managementall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:novell:zenworks_remote_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
novell zenworks server management= 6.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:novell:zenworks_server_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
novell zenworks servers= 3.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:novell:zenworks_servers:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

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enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2005-05-25modified 2026-06-16

references (20)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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