MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2004-1906

Freescan vulnerability

CVSS
5.0
EPSS
4.0%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
Mcafee FreeScan allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly arbitrary code via a long string in the ScanParam property of a COM object, which may trigger a buffer overflow.
Affected vendor
Mcafee
Affected product
Freescan
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published
2004-12-31

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 4.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2004-1906

  • Confirm whether Mcafee Freescan is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2004-1906.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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