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CVE-2004-0221

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0221 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting isakmpd in OpenBSD 3.4 and earlier versions. Remote attackers can crash the system by sending a specially crafted ISAKMP packet containing a delete payload with an excessive number of Security Parameter Indexes (SPIs), leading to an out-of-bounds read error. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and no authentication required, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploits in Metasploit or ExploitDB, though it has garnered significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0362 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

marc.info
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/15630
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/524497
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
openbsd.org / errata.html
ProductVendor Advisory
rapid7.com / advisories/R7-0018.html
Broken Link
securityfocus.com / bid/9907
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / alerts/2004/Mar/1009468.html
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry