CVE-2005-0129

Exp

The Quick Buttons feature in Konversation 0.15 allows remote attackers to execute certain IRC commands via a channel name containing "%" variables, which are recursively expanded by the Server::parseWildcards function when the Part Button is selected.

Published: 2005-04-14 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2005-0129 is rated High Exploit Risk (73.7/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 10.32%, 95th percentile). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2005-0129

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
25054 exploit_db edb 2005-01-19 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2005-0129

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 14.92% 10.32% -4.59%
2 2025-03-30 16.28% 14.92% -1.36%
3 2025-03-29 16.28%

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2005-0129

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2005-0129

OS Trackers for CVE-2005-0129

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2005-0129 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (konversation), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-0129
suse medium https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2005-0129/
ubuntu medium CVE-2005-0129 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (konversation), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): released 3, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2005-0129

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2005-0129

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
berlios konversation 0.15 cpe:2.3:a:berlios:konversation:0.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2005-0129

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