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CVE-2004-0257

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0257 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting OpenBSD 3.4 and NetBSD 1.6/1.6.1. Remote attackers can crash affected systems by sending a specially crafted IPv6 packet with a small MTU to a listening port, followed by a TCP connect. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it is not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, suggesting it is not actively exploited. Despite its age, it has garnered moderate community discussion, with 10 mentions.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:1.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.47%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0247 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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

ftp.netbsd.org / pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2004-002.txt.asc
lists.grok.org.uk / pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-February/016704.html
marc.info
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/15044
guninski.com / obsdmtu.html
openbsd.org / cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/netinet6/ip6_output.c
osvdb.org / 3825
securityfocus.com / bid/9577
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