CVE-2004-0204
Directory traversal vulnerability in the web viewers for Business Objects Crystal Reports 9 and 10, and Crystal Enterprise 9 or 10, as…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 72.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the web viewers for Business Objects Crystal Reports 9 and 10, and Crystal Enterprise 9 or 10, as used in Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager, Microsoft Business Solutions CRM 1.2, and other products, allows remote attackers to read and delete arbitrary files via ".." sequences in the dynamicimag argument to crystalimagehandler.aspx.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Business Objects Crystal Reports 9/10 Web Form Viewer - Directory Traversal (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 24077remote, windowspublished 3 May 2004Verified
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Timeline
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By mitre
- 3 months later
· 3 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)
- 72.4% · top 0.6% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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
9
- 20040502 Crystal Reports Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://support.businessobjects.com/fix/hot/critical/bulletins/security_bulletin_june04.asp (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 11800 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20040608 Vulnerability: Arbitrary File Access & DoS in Crystal Reports (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- crystalreports-file-deletion(16044) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 6748 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 10260 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1157 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- MS04-017 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_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-2004-0204 (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-2004-0204)Record last updated .