CVE-2005-2120

MediumCVSS 6.5/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Plug and Play (PnP) service (UMPNPMGR.DLL) in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, and XP SP1 and SP2, allows remote or local authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large number of "\" (backslash) characters in a registry key name, which triggers the overflow in a wsprintfW function call.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 6.5/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Oct 13, 2005
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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