CVE-2005-1122

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-04-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-134

Description

Format string vulnerability in cgi.c for Monkey daemon (monkeyd) before 0.9.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via an HTTP GET request containing double-encoded format string specifiers (aka "double expansion error").

Affected products

monkey: through 0.9.0; 0.1.1, 0.5.2, 0.6.0, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, 0.6.3 (+10)

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87916
http://secunia.com/advisories/14953
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200504-14.xml
http://www.osvdb.org/15511
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87916
http://secunia.com/advisories/14953
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200504-14.xml
http://www.osvdb.org/15511

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