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CVE-2004-2442

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-2442 describes a bypass vulnerability in various F-Secure Anti-Virus products, including Workstation, Windows Servers, and MIMEsweeper, where a specially crafted compressed file can evade detection. The vulnerability stems from an interpretation error allowing a compressed file with zeroed local and global headers to be opened on the target system despite containing malicious content. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, potentially leading to integrity impact. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-629) exists, and community discussion and media coverage are minimal.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.51CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:f-secure:f-secure_anti-virus:4.51:*:linux_gateways:*:*:*:*:*
4.51CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:f-secure:f-secure_anti-virus:4.51:*:linux_servers:*:*:*:*:*
4.51CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:f-secure:f-secure_anti-virus:4.51:*:linux_workstations:*:*:*:*:*
4.52CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:f-secure:f-secure_anti-virus:4.52:*:linux_gateways:*:*:*:*:*
4.52CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:f-secure:f-secure_anti-virus:4.52:*:linux_servers:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
10.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-629 · Nov 14, 2004
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1064 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 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

secunia.com / advisories/13263
Patch
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/18217
ciac.org / ciac/bulletins/p-041.shtml
Vendor Advisory
f-secure.com / security/fsc-2004-3.shtml
PatchVendor Advisory
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/968818
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/11732
Patch