Is CVE-2005-0101 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2005-0101 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2005-0101?

CVE-2005-0101 has a CVSS v2 base score of 7.5 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2005-0101?

CVE-2005-0101 has an EPSS score of 15.87% (96th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2005-0101

HIGHEPSS 96th pctl

7.5

CVSS v2

NVD

Description

Buffer overflow in the socket_getline function in Newspost 2.1.1 and earlier allows remote malicious NNTP servers to execute arbitrary code via a long string without a newline character.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

15.87%probability of exploitation in 30 days

96thpercentile

Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 96% of all known CVEs.

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110746336728781&w=2
http://people.freebsd.org/~niels/issues/newspost-20050114.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/14092/
http://secunia.com/advisories/14098
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-05.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1013056
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12418
http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/7f13607b-6948-11d9-8937-00065be4b5b6.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19178

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-04-16.