Vulnerability Report

CVE-2004-0459

Title: IEEE 802.11 wireless protocol CCA DoS

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2004-0459.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Jul 07, 2004
Modified Date Apr 03, 2025
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
4.42%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2004-0459: The Clear Channel Assessment (CCA) algorithm in the IEEE 802.11 wireless protocol, when using DSSS transmission encoding, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a certain RF signal that causes a channel to appear busy (aka "jabber"), which prevents devices from transmitting data.

Impacted Vendors

I
ieee 1

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-05/0631.html http://securitytracker.com/id?1010152 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2004-009.pdf http://www.auscert.org.au/render.html?it=4091 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/106678 http://www.osvdb.org/16034 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10342 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16138 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-05/0631.html http://securitytracker.com/id?1010152 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2004-009.pdf http://www.auscert.org.au/render.html?it=4091 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/106678 http://www.osvdb.org/16034 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10342 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16138
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2004-0459 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.