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CVE-2004-0183

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0183 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in TCPDUMP versions 3.8.1 and earlier. Remote attackers can crash the software by sending specially crafted ISAKMP packets containing a Delete payload with an excessive number of Security Parameter Indexes (SPIs), leading to an out-of-bounds read. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity. It is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and requires no authentication, but its impact is limited to availability (denial of service). There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are minimal, suggesting it has not garnered significant attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:tcpdump:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
5.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0562 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 23,684 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 (2)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: tcpdump-14:3.7.2-7.E3.2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-0183Low

security flaw

Mar 29, 2004

References

marc.info
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.fedora.us / show_bug.cgi
Broken LinkIssue Tracking
secunia.com / advisories/11258
Broken Link
secunia.com / advisories/11320
Broken Link
securitytracker.com / id
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/15680
Broken LinkVDB Entry
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A972
Broken Link
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9971
Broken Link
debian.org / security/2004/dsa-478
Broken LinkPatchVendor Advisory
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/240790
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
rapid7.com / advisories/R7-0017.html
Broken Link
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2004-219.html
Broken Link
securityfocus.com / bid/10003
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
tcpdump.org / tcpdump-changes.txt
Release Notes
trustix.org / errata/2004/0015
Broken Link