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CVE-2004-0789

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0789 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting multiple DNS protocol implementations, including Poslib, Axis Network products, and Men & Mice Suite. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending specially crafted DNS queries or responses that trigger a communication loop, leading to high CPU and network bandwidth consumption. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, resulting in a partial denial of service. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:delegate:delegate:7.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:delegate:delegate:7.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:delegate:delegate:7.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:delegate:delegate:7.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.8.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:delegate:delegate:7.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.77%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0277 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 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

secunia.com / advisories/13145
Patch
securitytracker.com / id
Patch
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/17997
niscc.gov.uk / niscc/docs/al-20041130-00862.html
Vendor Advisory
niscc.gov.uk / niscc/docs/re-20041109-00957.pdf
Vendor Advisory
posadis.org / advisories/pos_adv_006.txt
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/11642
Patch