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CVE-2004-0938

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0938 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in FreeRADIUS versions prior to 1.0.1. An unauthenticated remote attacker can crash the server by sending a malformed Ascend-Send-Secret attribute without the expected preceding packet. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a low severity with no impact on confidentiality or integrity, but a potential for partial availability loss. There is no known exploit code available, nor is there evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freeradius:freeradius:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.65%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0365 is in the 85th 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 (2)

gentoopatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: freeradius-0:1.0.1-1.RHEL3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-0938

security flaw

Sep 20, 2004

References

security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200409-29.xml
PatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/17440
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10837
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1347
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/541574
PatchThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
osvdb.org / 10178
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/11222
PatchVendor Advisory