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CVE-2004-1299

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-1299 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in the get_attr function of html.c within vilistextum version 2.6.6. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems by enticing a user to open a specially crafted web page. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring no authentication and having complete impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, and it has garnered significant community discussion, indicating potential for exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.6.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vilistextum:vilistextum:2.6.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
12.25%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-24983 · Dec 15, 2004
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1225 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/18610
tigger.uic.edu / ~jlongs2/holes/vilistextum.txt
ExploitVendor Advisory