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CVE-2004-0038

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0038 describes a critical vulnerability in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) versions 2.5.1 Patch 13 and 3.0 SP2a Patch 3. This flaw permits unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by sending specially crafted HTTP POST requests to the spipe/file handler on ePO TCP port 81. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is highly severe, allowing for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. Despite its age and severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:epolicy_orchestrator:2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:epolicy_orchestrator:2.5:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:epolicy_orchestrator:2.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:epolicy_orchestrator:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:epolicy_orchestrator:3.0:sp2a:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0321 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

download.nai.com / products/patches/ePO/v2.x/Patch14.txt
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/14166
osvdb.org / 5626
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/10200
PatchVendor Advisory
xforce.iss.net / xforce/alerts/id/173
PatchVendor Advisory