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CVE-2004-0417

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0417 describes an integer overflow vulnerability in the "Max-dotdot" CVS protocol command (serve_max_dotdot) affecting CVS versions 1.12.x through 1.12.8 and 1.11.x through 1.11.16, as well as distributions like Gentoo, OpenBSD, OpenPKG, and SGI. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger a server crash, potentially leaving temporary data undeleted and consuming disk space. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it is a low-severity issue with low attack complexity, resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.10.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cvs:cvs:1.10.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.10.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cvs:cvs:1.10.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cvs:cvs:1.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.11.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cvs:cvs:1.11.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.11.1_p1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cvs:cvs:1.11.1_p1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.07%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0307 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 23,705 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 (3)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: cvs-0:1.11.2-24
View patch
gentoovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-0417Important

security flaw

Jun 9, 2004

References

patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20040605-01-U.asc
lists.grok.org.uk / pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-June/022441.html
marc.info
security.e-matters.de / advisories/092004.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200406-06.xml
Vendor Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1001
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11145
debian.org / security/2004/dsa-519
PatchVendor Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2004-233.html