CVE-2005-0687

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-03-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Format string vulnerability in Hashcash 1.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a reply address, which is not properly handled when printing the header.

Affected products

Hashcash: 1.14, 1.15, 1.16

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83541
http://secunia.com/advisories/14487
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-12.xml
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83541
http://secunia.com/advisories/14487
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-12.xml

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