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CVE-2004-2259

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-2259 describes a Denial of Service vulnerability affecting vsftpd versions prior to 1.2.2. Under heavy load, the FTP server can crash due to a non-re-entrant malloc or free call triggered by a SIGCHLD signal. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity) with an attack vector of Network, low attack complexity, and a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:beasts:vsftpd:1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:beasts:vsftpd:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.07%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0207 is in the 68th 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-2259Moderate

security flaw

Mar 25, 2004

References

vsftpd.beasts.org / users/cevans/untar/vsftpd-1.2.2/Changelog
bugzilla.redhat.com / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHBA-2004-164.html
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/11680
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/11736
PatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/16222
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11049
osvdb.org / 6306
Patch
securityfocus.com / bid/10394