CVE-2004-2043
Buffer overflow in ibserver for Firebird Database 1.0 and other versions before 1.5, and possibly other products that use the InterBase…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 11.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Buffer overflow in ibserver for Firebird Database 1.0 and other versions before 1.5, and possibly other products that use the InterBase codebase, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long database name, as demonstrated using the gsec command.
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
- Borland Interbase 7.x - Remote Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 303remote, linuxpublished 25 Jun 2004Verified
- Firebird 1.0 - Remote Database Name Buffer Overrun (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 24165remote, linuxpublished 1 Jun 2004Verified
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
- 6 days later
· 6 days 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)
- 11.9% · top 3.9% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
12
- DSA-1014 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- firebird-database-name-bo(16229) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 19350 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20040601 Firebird Database Remote Database Name Overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 6624 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 20040602 Firebird [ AND Interbase 7 ] Database Remote Database Name Overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- interbase-database-name-bo(16316) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 10446 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/5AP0P0UCUO.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1010381 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 6408 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 11756 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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-2004-2035 (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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