CVE-2005-1792

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-06-01 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Memory leak in Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) by creating security contexts more quickly than they can be cleared from the RPC cache.

Affected products

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions

References

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/890196
http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/windows-wmi-rpc.html
http://www.osvdb.org/13020
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13801
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/890196
http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/windows-wmi-rpc.html
http://www.osvdb.org/13020
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13801

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