CVE-2004-0548

highpriority · track · 39EPSS 0.009 · 60 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

0.92% (60th) EPSS

CVSS 7.2 · high

Is it mine?

3 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-23

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the word-list-compress functionality in compress.c for Aspell allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a long entry in the wordlist that is not properly handled when using the (1) "c" compress option or (2) "d" decompress option.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.2

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.5–7.2

v2.07.2highAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 10

v2.06.5mediumAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-121USLLM-inferredCWE-416USLLM-inferred

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-669Aspell (word-list-compress) - Command Line Stack Overflowfunctional · exploit_db

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
gentoo linux= 1.4nvdUScpe:2.3:o:gentoo:linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu aspell= 0.50.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:aspell:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2004-08-06modified 2026-06-16

references (8)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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