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Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-2004-0418 json

serve_notify in CVS 1.12.x through 1.12.8, and 1.11.x through 1.11.16, does not properly handle empty data lines, which may allow remote at…

published 2004-06-11 22 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2004-0417

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.7%
EPSS 5.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

serve_notify in CVS 1.12.x through 1.12.8, and 1.11.x through 1.11.16, does not properly handle empty data lines, which may allow remote attackers to perform an "out-of-bounds" write for a single byte to execute arbitrary code or modify critical program data.

Patch / fix

  • cvs Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:1.12.9-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2004-0418

  • cvs RHEL 3 1.11.2-24

red hat advisories RHSA-2004:233

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2004-0418 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 cvs 1.11.2-24 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 cvs 1.11.2-24 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 cvs 1.11.2-24 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 cvs 1.11.2-24
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2004:233

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

5.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.