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CVE-2004-1454

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-1454 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cisco IOS versions 12.0S, 12.2, and 12.3 when Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is enabled. A remote attacker can exploit this by sending a malformed OSPF packet, leading to a device reload. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and no authentication required, but only impacts availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there public exploit modules in Metasploit or Nuclei, despite a relatively high number of community mentions.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
12.0\(22\)sCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.0\(22\)s:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.0\(22\)s4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.0\(22\)s4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.0\(22\)s5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.0\(22\)s5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.0\(22\)syCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.0\(22\)sy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.0\(23\)sxCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.0\(23\)sx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0343 is in the 83rd 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/12322
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/17033
ciac.org / ciac/bulletins/o-199.shtml
Vendor Advisory
cisco.com / warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20040818-ospf.shtml
Vendor Advisory
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/989406
PatchThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/10971