CVE-2005-2118

mediumpriority · track · 37EPSS 0.477 · 99 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

47.7% (99th) EPSS

CVSS 5.1 · medium

Is it mine?

4 products

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Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Windows Shell for Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 and SP2, and Server 2003 allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted shortcut (.lnk) file with long font properties that lead to a buffer overflow when the user views the file's properties using Windows Explorer, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2122.

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-120USLLM-inferredCWE-440USLLM-inferred

affected products (4)

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 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 (22)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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