CVE-2004-0789
Multiple implementations of the DNS protocol, including (1) Poslib 1.0.2-1 and earlier as used by Posadis, (2) Axis Network products…
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- mitre
Description
Multiple implementations of the DNS protocol, including (1) Poslib 1.0.2-1 and earlier as used by Posadis, (2) Axis Network products before firmware 3.13, and (3) Men & Mice Suite 2.2x before 2.2.3 and 3.5.x before 3.5.2, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and network bandwidth consumption) by triggering a communications loop via (a) DNS query packets with localhost as a spoofed source address, or (b) a response packet that triggers a response packet.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 13 months later
· 13 months later
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.8% · top 14% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- 13145 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- dns-localhost-dos(17997) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1012157 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 11642 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/al-20041130-00862.html?lang=en (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.posadis.org/advisories/pos_adv_006.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/re-20041109-00957.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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)
- 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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