Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2004-2541

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-2541 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in Cscope 15.5, and potentially other versions, affecting the Cscope product. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by crafting a C file with an excessively long #include line, which is then browsed by a vulnerable target. With a CVSS score of 6.9, this vulnerability has a local attack vector and medium attack complexity, but can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
15.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cscope:cscope:15.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.9MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.73%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0173 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 1,595 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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 (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: cscope-0:15.5-16.RHEL3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: cscope-0:15.5-10.RHEL4.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: cscope-0:15.5-15.1.el5_3.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-2541Moderate

cscope: multiple buffer overflows

Apr 30, 2009

References

docs.info.apple.com / article.html
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/13237
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/20191
secunia.com / advisories/20564
secunia.com / advisories/26235
secunia.com / advisories/35462
sourceforge.net / tracker/index.php
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10069
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1064
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-10.xml
osvdb.org / 11920
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-1101.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-1102.html
securityfocus.com / bid/18050
securityfocus.com / bid/25159
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/2732