CVE-2005-1939

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Directory traversal vulnerability in Ipswitch WhatsUp Small Business 2004 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via ".." (dot dot) sequences in a request to the Report service (TCP 8022).

Published: 2005-12-31 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2005-1939 is rated High Exploit Risk (70.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 44.27%, 97th percentile). 6 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2005-1939

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
26464 exploit_db edb 2005-11-03 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2005-1939

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 2026-02-13 43.31% 44.27% +0.96%
2 2025-10-13 38.62% 43.31% +4.69%
3 2025-03-30 — 38.62% —

Full EPSS history (13 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2005-1939

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N 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:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2005-1939

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2005-1939

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
ipswitch whatsup_small_business 2004 cpe:2.3:a:ipswitch:whatsup_small_business:2004:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2005-1939

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