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CVE-2004-0960

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0960 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in FreeRADIUS versions prior to 1.0.1, affecting various FreeRADIUS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Fedora Core products. Remote attackers can trigger a core dump by sending malformed USR vendor-specific attributes (VSA), leading to a memcpy operation with a negative argument. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and no authentication required, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freeradius:freeradius:0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freeradius:freeradius:0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freeradius:freeradius:0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freeradius:freeradius:0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freeradius:freeradius:0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.23%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0323 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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 (1)

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-0960

security flaw

Sep 20, 2004

References

security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200409-29.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/17440
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11023
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/541574
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/11222
PatchVendor Advisory