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CVE-2004-1702

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-1702 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Cfengine versions 2.0.0 through 2.1.7p1. The AuthenticationDialogue function in cfservd fails to properly handle the return value of ReceiveTransaction, leading to a null dereference after a failed memory allocation. This allows unauthenticated remote attackers to crash the service. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0241 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 23,684 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 (1)

gentoopatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/12251
PatchVendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200408-08.xml
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/16937
coresecurity.com / common/showdoc.php
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/10900
PatchVendor Advisory