CVE-2005-0687

HIGH 7.5CVE-2005-0687 · Published 06/03/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-0687 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting hashcash (hashcash).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.9%, higher than 86.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
hashcash hashcash	`= 1.14= 1.15= 1.16`	No fix yet

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.

References

bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi · Patch
secunia.com/advisories/14487 · Patch
gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-12.xml · Patch

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