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CVE-2004-1539

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-1539 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Halo: Combat Evolved versions 1.05 and earlier, where a malicious game server can crash client systems by sending an excessively long reply, leading to a NULL dereference. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity, resulting in a partial availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the KEV catalog, a public exploit (EDB-651) exists, though there is no significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding it.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gearbox_software:halo_combat_evolved:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gearbox_software:halo_combat_evolved:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gearbox_software:halo_combat_evolved:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gearbox_software:halo_combat_evolved:1.31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.08%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-651 · Nov 22, 2004
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0308 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 23,701 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, 0.0 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

marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/13273
PatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/18196
securityfocus.com / bid/11724
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