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CVE-2004-2621

13
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-2621 describes a race condition in Nortel Contivity VPN Client versions 2.1.7 through 5.01. The vulnerability arises because the client fails to validate the gateway certificate before displaying a user dialog during VPN tunnel establishment, enabling remote attackers to conduct man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. With a CVSS score of 4.0, this vulnerability has a network attack vector and high attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality and integrity compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this older vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.1.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:nortel:contivity:2.1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.00CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:nortel:contivity:3.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.01CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:nortel:contivity:3.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.91CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:nortel:contivity:4.91:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.01CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:nortel:contivity:5.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.75%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
51.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0075 is in the 10th percentile among its peer group of 19,954 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 0.2 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/12881
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/17812
www130.nortelnetworks.com / cgi-bin/eserv/cs/main.jsp
osvdb.org / 11002
securityfocus.com / bid/11495