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CVE-2004-0504

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0504 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Ethereal 0.10.3, affecting various Ethereal and ProPack distributions. Remote attackers can crash the Ethereal application by sending specially crafted SIP messages exchanged between Hotsip servers and clients. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, leading to a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit or ExploitDB, though it has garnered significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.10.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.10.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.10.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.10.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.10.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sgi:propack:2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sgi:propack:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.71%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0271 is in the 77th 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: ethereal-0:0.10.3-0.30E.2
View patch
gentoovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-0504

security flaw

May 3, 2004

References

patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20040604-01-U.asc
patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20040605-01-U.asc
distro.conectiva.com.br / atualizacoes
secunia.com / advisories/11608
secunia.com / advisories/11776
secunia.com / advisories/11836
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200406-01.xml
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/16148
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9769
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A982
ciac.org / ciac/bulletins/o-150.shtml
ethereal.com / appnotes/enpa-sa-00014.html
URL Repurposed
ethereal.com / lists/ethereal-users/200405/msg00018.html
URL Repurposed
osvdb.org / 6131
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2004-234.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/10347
PatchVendor Advisory