CVE-2004-0679 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The IP cloaking feature (cloak.c) in UnrealIRCd 3.2, and possibly other versions, uses a weak hashing scheme to hide IP addresses, which could allow remote attackers to use brute force methods to gain other user's IP addresses.

Published: 2004-07-13

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:unreal:unrealircd:3.1.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:unreal:unrealircd:3.1.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:unreal:unrealircd:3.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:unreal:unrealircd:3.2_.0_beta_10:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2004-0678	The IP cloaking feature (cloak.c) in UnrealIRCd 3.2, and possibly other versions, uses a weak hashing scheme to hide IP addresses, which could allow remote attackers to use brute force methods to gain other user's IP addresses.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00854.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108904813003166&w=2
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/560
http://www.bandecon.com/advisory/unreal.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10663
http://www.unrealircd.com/
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16610

History

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Subscriptions

Unreal Unrealircd

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2004-07-13T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T00:24:27.063Z

Reserved: 2004-07-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2004-0679

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2004-08-06T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2004-0679

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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