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CVE-2004-0493

72
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0493 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Apache httpd 2.0.49, affecting products from vendors like Avaya, Gentoo, and IBM. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending long header lines with numerous space or tab characters, leading to memory exhaustion and potentially a heap-based buffer overflow on 64-bit systems. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.4, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and potential for partial impact on integrity and availability. While not listed in CISA KEV, public exploit code exists in ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:avaya:converged_communications_server:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:gentoo:linux:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:trustix:secure_linux:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:trustix:secure_linux:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:trustix:secure_linux:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.4MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
84.78%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-371 · Aug 2, 2004
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.8478 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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 (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: httpd-0:2.0.46-32.ent.3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-0493Important

security flaw

Jun 28, 2004

References

lists.grok.org.uk / pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-June/023133.html
marc.info
marc.info
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200407-03.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/16524
lists.apache.org / thread.html/54a42d4b01968df1117cea77fc53d6beb931c0e05936ad02af93e9ac%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/5df9bfb86a3b054bb985a45ff9250b0332c9ecc181eec232489e7f79%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r0276683d8e1e07153fc8642618830ac0ade85b9ae0dc7b07f63bb8fc%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r2cb985de917e7da0848c440535f65a247754db8b2154a10089e4247b%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r5001ecf3d6b2bdd0b732e527654248abb264f08390045d30709a92f6%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r734a07156abf332d5ab27fb91d9d962cacfef4f3681e44056f064fa8%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r8828e649175df56f1f9e3919938ac7826128525426e2748f0ab62feb%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r9e8622254184645bc963a1d47c5d47f6d5a36d6f080d8d2c43b2b142%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r9f93cf6dde308d42a9c807784e8102600d0397f5f834890708bf6920%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rd65d8ba68ba17e7deedafbf5bb4899f2ae4dad781d21b931c2941ac3%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/re895fc1736d25c8cf57e102c871613b8aeec9ea26fd8a44e7942b5ab%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rf6449464fd8b7437704c55f88361b66f12d5b5f90bcce66af4be4ba9%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10605
apacheweek.com / features/security-20
guninski.com / httpd1.html
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2004-342.html
securityfocus.com / bid/10619
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
trustix.org / errata/2004/0039