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CVE-2004-0607

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0607 describes a critical vulnerability in the eay_check_x509cert function within KAME Racoon, affecting products like ipsec-tools, kame, and Red Hat. This flaw allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by successfully verifying X.509 certificates even when OpenSSL validation fails. With a CVSS score of 10.0, it represents a complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring no authentication or complex attack vectors. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ipsec-tools:ipsec-tools:0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ipsec-tools:ipsec-tools:0.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ipsec-tools:ipsec-tools:0.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3_rc1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ipsec-tools:ipsec-tools:0.3_rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3_rc2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ipsec-tools:ipsec-tools:0.3_rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0544 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 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, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

gentoopatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: ipsec-tools-0:0.2.5-0.5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-0607Important

security flaw

Jun 15, 2004

References

ftp.sco.com / pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.10/SCOSA-2005.10.txt
marc.info
marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/11863
secunia.com / advisories/11877
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200406-17.xml
PatchVendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/16414
sourceforge.net / project/shownotes.php
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9163
osvdb.org / 7113
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2004-308.html
securityfocus.com / bid/10546
Vendor Advisory