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CVE-2004-0270

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0270 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Clam AntiVirus version 0.65, where a specially crafted uuencoded email message with an invalid line length can crash the clamd process. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to a complete loss of availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists, and it has garnered significant community discussion, suggesting awareness among security researchers.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.65CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:0.65:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
10.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-23667 · Feb 9, 2004
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1041 is in the 94th 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

Vendor Patches (1)

gentoovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

marc.info
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200402-07.xml
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/15077
freebsd.org / cgi/query-pr.cgi
osvdb.org / 3894
securityfocus.com / bid/9610
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory