CVE-2004-2371

Desert Siege vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

3.3%

EPSS pct

87th

Exploited

No known

Multiple Red Storm web-based games, including Ghost Recon 1.4 and earlier, Desert Siege, and The Sum of all Fears 1.1.1.0 and earlier, do not properly check return values from certain functions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) via packets that contain text strings with incorrect size values.

Affected vendor

Redstorm

Affected product

Desert Siege

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 3.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

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