CVE-2005-2117

mediumpriority · track · 33EPSS 0.376 · 99 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

37.6% (99th) EPSS

CVSS 5.1 · medium

Is it mine?

5 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Web View in Windows Explorer on Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 and SP2, and Server 2003 does not properly handle certain HTML characters in preview fields, which allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code.

cvss

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

5.1

010

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

v2.05.1mediumAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 4.9 · impact 6.4

v2.05.1mediumAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-20USLLM-inferredCWE-79USLLM-inferred

affected products (5)

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= r2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2003_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows explorerall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:windows_explorer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 2005-10-21modified 2026-06-16

references (16)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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