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CVE-2004-1091

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-1091 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Midnight Commander versions 4.5.55 and earlier, impacting various Linux distributions including Debian, Gentoo, Red Hat, SUSE, and TurboLinux. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to trigger a null dereference, leading to a system crash or unresponsiveness. Rated with a CVSS score of 5.0, it is a low-complexity attack requiring no authentication, but its impact is limited to availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.5.40CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.40:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.5.41CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.41:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.5.42CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.42:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.5.43CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.43:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.5.44CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.44:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.67%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0167 is in the 59th percentile among its peer group of 23,703 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 (4)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-1091Low

security flaw

Jan 14, 2005

References

secunia.com / advisories/13863
PatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/18908
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-639
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-512.html