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CVE-2004-0961

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0961 describes a memory leak vulnerability in FreeRADIUS versions prior to 1.0.1, affecting various FreeRADIUS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Fedora Core products. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger a denial of service by sending specific Access-Request packets containing Ascend-Send-Secret, Ascend-Recv-Secret, or Tunnel-Password attributes, leading to memory exhaustion. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and potential for partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.

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
3.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0326 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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 (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-2004-0961

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%3A10024
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/541574
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/11222
PatchVendor Advisory