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CVE-2004-1140

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-1140 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Ethereal versions 0.9.0 through 0.10.7, where a remote attacker can cause the application to hang and potentially exhaust disk space by sending an invalid RTP timestamp. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploits in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Despite its age, the CVE has garnered significant community discussion, with 10 mentions, suggesting continued awareness or interest.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.9.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0249 is in the 75th 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 (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: ethereal-0:0.10.9-1.EL3.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-1140Moderate

security flaw

Dec 15, 2004

References

distro.conectiva.com.br / atualizacoes
secunia.com / advisories/13468
Patch
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/18485
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10484
ciac.org / ciac/bulletins/p-061.shtml
Vendor Advisory
ethereal.com / appnotes/enpa-sa-00016.html
Vendor AdvisoryURL Repurposed
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-15.xml
Patch
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00003.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-037.html
securityfocus.com / bid/11943
Patch