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CVE-2004-2068

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-2068 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in leafnode versions 1.9.47 and earlier. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending an empty NNTP news article lacking mandatory headers, causing the fetchnews process to hang. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with a low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.9.25CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:leafnode:leafnode:1.9.25:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.9.26CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:leafnode:leafnode:1.9.26:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.9.27CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:leafnode:leafnode:1.9.27:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.9.28CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:leafnode:leafnode:1.9.28:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.9.29CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:leafnode:leafnode:1.9.29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.63%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0163 is in the 58th 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

leafnode.sourceforge.net / leafnode-SA-2004-01.txt
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/10590
Patch
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/14189
derkeiler.com / Mailing-Lists/VulnWatch/2004-01/0009.html
osvdb.org / 3441