CVE-2005-1792: Microsoft Windows XP

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 6.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Memory leak in Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) by creating security contexts more quickly than they can be cleared from the RPC cache.

Affected products

Published 2005-06-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.