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CVE-2004-1176

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-1176 describes a buffer underflow vulnerability in the extfs.c component of Midnight Commander (mc) versions 4.5.55 and earlier, impacting various Linux distributions. This flaw carries a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity, as it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, potentially leading to denial of service and arbitrary code execution. While the vulnerability is significant, there is no evidence of active exploitation, no known exploit code available in common databases like Metasploit or ExploitDB, and it has received minimal community or media attention.

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

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
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
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0310 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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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 Advanced Workstation 2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-1176Low

security flaw

Dec 13, 2004

References

secunia.com / advisories/13863
PatchVendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/18911
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-639
PatchVendor Advisory
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-24.xml
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-217.html