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CVE-2005-0398

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0398 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the KAME racoon daemon in ipsec-tools versions prior to 0.5, impacting products from vendors like Red Hat, SUSE, and SGI. This vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 5.0, allows unauthenticated remote attackers to crash the daemon by sending specially crafted ISAKMP packets, requiring low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ipsec-tools:ipsec-tools:0.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ipsec-tools:ipsec-tools:0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2003-07-11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kame:racoon:2003-07-11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2004-04-05CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kame:racoon:2004-04-05:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2004-04-07bCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kame:racoon:2004-04-07b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0243 is in the 74th 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 (4)

gentoopatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: ipsec-tools-0:0.2.5-0.7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: ipsec-tools-0:0.3.3-6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-0398Moderate

security flaw

Mar 9, 2005

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / bugzilla/attachment.cgi
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/14584
PatchVendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200503-33.xml
PatchVendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
PatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/19707
sourceforge.net / mailarchive/forum.php
PatchVendor Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10028
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-232.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/12804
PatchVendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/0264