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CVE-2004-0298

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0298 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in CesarFTP 0.99e, where a remote attacker can exhaust CPU resources by sending a specially crafted, long RETR parameter. This unauthenticated attack has low complexity and a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a partial availability impact. While not currently on CISA's KEV catalog, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, and the CVE has garnered significant community discussion, suggesting potential for exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.99eCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:aclogic:cesarftp:0.99e:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.10%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-23700 · Feb 16, 2004
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0310 is in the 81st 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

marc.info
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/15252
securityfocus.com / bid/9666
ExploitVendor Advisory