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CVE-2004-2596

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-2596 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Quake II server versions prior to R1Q2, affecting multiple products utilizing this server. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exhaust connection slots by initiating numerous connections from a single IP address. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity) with a low attack complexity and only impacts availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:id_software:quake_ii_server:3.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.21CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:id_software:quake_ii_server:3.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0186 is in the 64th percentile among its peer group of 23,703 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

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2004-10/0299.html
secunia.com / advisories/13013
Vendor Advisory
secur1ty.net / advisories/001
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/17894
web.archive.org / web/20041130092749/www.r1ch.net/stuff/r1q2
securityfocus.com / bid/11551