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CVE-2004-0232

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0232 describes multiple format string vulnerabilities in Midnight Commander (mc) versions prior to 4.6.0, impacting products like Gentoo and Slackware. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and allows unauthenticated attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) or potentially execute arbitrary code with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available on platforms like Metasploit or ExploitDB. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are minimal, suggesting low public awareness.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.5.40CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.40:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.5.41CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.41:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.5.42CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.42:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.5.43CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.43:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.5.44CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.44:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.94%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0295 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-0232Important

security flaw

Apr 29, 2004

References

security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200405-21.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/16021
debian.org / security/2004/dsa-497
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2004_12_mc.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2004-172.html