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CVE-2004-1287

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-1287 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in the error function of NASM 0.98.38 and 1.2, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code through a specially crafted assembly file. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring no authentication and having a complete impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not actively exploited in the wild, public exploit code is available via ExploitDB, and it has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness among security researchers.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.98.38CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nasm:netwide_assembler:0.98.38:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
17.88%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-25005 · Dec 15, 2004
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1788 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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 (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: nasm-0:0.98.35-3.EL3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: nasm-0:0.98.38-3.EL4
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-1287Low

security flaw

Dec 15, 2004

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/18540
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11299
Broken Link
tigger.uic.edu / ~jlongs2/holes/nasm.txt
ExploitVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-381.html
Not Applicable