CVE-2005-2204 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Computer Associates (CA) eTrust SiteMinder 5.5, when the "CSSChecking" parameter is set to "NO," allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) PASSWORD or (2) BUFFER parameters to smpwservicescgi.exe, (3) the TARGET parameter to login.fcc, and possibly other vectors

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Computer Associates (CA) eTrust SiteMinder 5.5, when the "CSSChecking" parameter is set to "NO," allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) PASSWORD or (2) BUFFER parameters to smpwservicescgi.exe, (3) the TARGET parameter to login.fcc, and possibly other vectors

Published Jul 11, 2005

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.90%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Computer Associates (CA) eTrust SiteMinder 5.5, when the "CSSChecking" parameter is set to "NO," allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) PASSWORD or (2) BUFFER parameters to smpwservicescgi.exe, (3) the TARGET parameter to login.fcc, and possibly other vectors.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.90% 0.01903

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01903

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.90% (0.01903)	78.97th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.90% (0.01903)	76.94th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.96% (0.00960)	74.91th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	1.01% (0.01013)	84.40th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 4, 2024	1.01% (0.01013)	83.41th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	1.01% (0.01013)	81.41th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.41% (0.01408)	72.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Mar 2, 2023	1.41% (0.01408)	72.88th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.41% (0.01408)	70.87th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.41% (0.01408)	49.94th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (8)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112084050624959&w=2
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112110963416714&w=2
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://secunia.com/advisories/15956
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014433
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKExploit
http://www.osvdb.org/17809
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.osvdb.org/17810
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1040
vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21305
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112084050624959&w=2		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112110963416714&w=2		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://secunia.com/advisories/15956		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014433		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKExploit
http://www.osvdb.org/17809		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.osvdb.org/17810		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1040		vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21305		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jul 11, 2005

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Jul 11, 2005

Link CVE-2005-2204

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2005-2204

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2005-2204