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CVE-2004-1761

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-1761 describes an unknown vulnerability in Ethereal versions 0.8.13 through 0.10.2, allowing attackers to trigger a denial of service (segmentation fault) by providing a specially crafted color filter file. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit or Nuclei, or entries in ExploitDB. Furthermore, the vulnerability has received minimal community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.8.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.17aCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.8.17a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.67%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0267 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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 (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: ethereal-0:0.10.3-0.30E.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 9
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-1761Moderate

security flaw

Mar 22, 2004

References

secunia.com / advisories/11185
Patch
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/15572
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10013
ethereal.com / appnotes/enpa-sa-00013.html
URL Repurposed
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/695486
US Government Resource
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2004-136.html