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CVE-2004-0155
The KAME IKE Daemon Racoon, when authenticating a peer during Phase 1, validates the X.509 certificate but does not verify the RSA…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 3.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 10% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The KAME IKE Daemon Racoon, when authenticating a peer during Phase 1, validates the X.509 certificate but does not verify the RSA signature authentication, which allows remote attackers to establish unauthorized IP connections or conduct man-in-the-middle attacks using a valid, trusted X.509 certificate.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 20 years later
· 20 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 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.6% · top 10% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
11
- MDKSA-2004:027 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- MDKSA-2004:069 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2004-05-03 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9291 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- GLSA-200406-17 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:945 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 11328 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- VU#552398 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- RHSA-2004:165 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 10072 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20040407 CAN-2004-0155: The KAME IKE Daemon Racoon does not verify RSA Signatures during Phase 1, allows man-in-the-middle attacks and unauthorized connections (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_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-2004-0155 (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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