Vulnerability Report

CVE-2004-0541

Title: Squid Web Proxy Cache buffer overflow RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2004-0541

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Aug 06, 2004

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

71.07%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2004-0541: Buffer overflow in the ntlm_check_auth (NTLM authentication) function for Squid Web Proxy Cache 2.5.x and 3.x, when compiled with NTLM handlers enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long password ("pass" variable).

Impacted Vendors

national_science_foundation 1

squid 1

Reference Links

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20040604-01-U.asc http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA--.shtml http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200406-13.xml http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=107&type=vulnerabilities http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/advisory.php?name=MDKSA-2004:059 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-242.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10500 http://www.trustix.net/errata/2004/0033/ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16360 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10722 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A980 ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20040604-01-U.asc http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA--.shtml http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200406-13.xml http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=107&type=vulnerabilities http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/advisory.php?name=MDKSA-2004:059 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-242.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10500 http://www.trustix.net/errata/2004/0033/ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16360 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10722 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A980

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

10.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2004-0541 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16847

View Code

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9951

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 06, 2004 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:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.