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CVE-2004-1453

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-1453 describes an information disclosure vulnerability in GNU glibc versions prior to 2.3.4.20040619, 2.3.3.20040420, and 2.3.2-r10. This flaw allows local users to leverage the LD_DEBUG environment variable with setuid programs to extract sensitive information, specifically the symbols used by the program. The vulnerability has a low severity score (CVSS 2.1) due to its local attack vector and low impact, primarily leading to information disclosure (confidentiality impact). There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there known Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB modules. Despite its age and low severity, the CVE has garnered a notable amount of community discussion, with 10 mentions, primarily on GitHub.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0036 is in the 36th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 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 (5)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: glibc-0:2.3.2-95.33
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-1453Low

security flaw

Aug 17, 2004

References

bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/12306
Patch
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/17006
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10762
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200408-16.xml
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-256.html
Vendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-261.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/10963
Patch