CVE-2004-1918 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

RSniff 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection exhaustion) via a large number of connections with a command other than AUTHENTICATE, or without any data, which prevents the socket from being closed properly.

Published: 2005-05-10

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:rsniff:rsniff:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2004-1911	RSniff 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection exhaustion) via a large number of connections with a command other than AUTHENTICATE, or without any data, which prevents the socket from being closed properly.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00911.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/rsniff-adv.txt
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108152508004665&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/11339
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10093
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15823

History

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Subscriptions

Rsniff Rsniff

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-05-10T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T01:07:49.056Z

Reserved: 2005-05-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2004-1918

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2004-04-09T04:00:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2004-1918

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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