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CVE-2004-0405

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0405 describes a directory traversal vulnerability in CVS clients prior to version 1.11, allowing attackers to read arbitrary files on the client system by using ".." sequences in filenames within CVS client requests. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with a low attack complexity and potential for partial confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cvs:cvs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0235 is in the 73rd 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: cvs-0:1.11.2-18
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 9
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-0405Moderate

security flaw

Apr 14, 2004

References

ftp.freebsd.org / pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:07.cvs.asc
PatchVendor Advisory
patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20040404-01-U.asc
PatchVendor Advisory
marc.info
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200404-13.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/15891
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1060
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10818
debian.org / security/2004/dsa-486
PatchVendor Advisory
slackware.com / security/viewer.php