CVE-2004-1701

highpriority · attend · 57EPSS 0.195 · 97 %ileexploit · functionalEURUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

2 exploits · functional

Likely / severe?

19.5% (97th) EPSS

CVSS 10 · high

Is it mine?

13 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Heap-based buffer overflow in the AuthenticationDialogue function in cfservd for Cfengine 2.0.0 to 2.1.7p1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long SAUTH command during RSA authentication.

cvss

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

10.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 9–10

v2.010highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 10

v2.010criticalAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Csecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v2.09highAV:N/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-122USLLM-inferred

exploits (2)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-24360GNU CFEngine 2.0.x/2.1 - AuthenticationDialogue Remote Heap Buffer Overrun (1)functional · exploit_db
EDB-24361GNU CFEngine 2.0.x/2.1 - AuthenticationDialogue Remote Heap Buffer Overrun (2)functional · exploit_db

affected products (13)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
Gentoo Foundation Inc. Gentoo Linux≤ 2004.3fstec_bduRU
gnu cfengine= 2.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu cfengine= 2.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu cfengine= 2.0.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu cfengine= 2.0.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu cfengine= 2.0.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu cfengine= 2.0.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu cfengine= 2.0.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu cfengine= 2.0.7nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu cfengine= 2.0.8nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu cfengine= 2.1.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu cfengine= 2.1.7nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd fstec_bdu nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2004-08-09modified 2026-06-16

references (14)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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