HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2004-0317

Lsf vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
4.7%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
Buffer overflow in eauth in Load Sharing Facility 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x allows local users or remote attackers within the LSF cluster to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long LSF_From_PC parameter.
Affected vendor
Platform
Affected product
Lsf
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published
2004-11-23

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2004-0317.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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