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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.