CVE-2004-0074
Multiple buffer overflows in xsok 1.02 allows local users to gain privileges via (1) a long LANG environment variable, or (2) a long…
- 4.6MediumCVSS base score
- 0.99%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 37% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Multiple buffer overflows in xsok 1.02 allows local users to gain privileges via (1) a long LANG environment variable, or (2) a long -xsokdir command line argument, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-0949.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB2 entries
- XSOK 1.02 - '-xsokdir' Local Buffer Overflow Game (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 140local, linuxpublished 2 Jan 2004Verified
- XSOK 1.0 2 - 'LANG Environment' Local Buffer Overrun (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 23510local, linuxpublished 30 Dec 2003Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 7 days later
· 7 days later
Published
- 21 years later
· 21 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.99% · top 37% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- 20040103 xsok local games exploit (2) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 9352 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- xsok-lang-bo(14910) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20040102 xsok local games exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- xsok-long-xsokdir-bo(14906) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 9341 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2004-0074 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2004-0074)Record last updated .