Vulnerability Report

CVE-2004-0799

Title: Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold HTTP daemon MS-DOS device name DoS

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2004-0799.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Oct 20, 2004

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

6.20%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2004-0799: The HTTP daemon in Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 8.03 and 8.03 Hotfix 1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) via a GET request containing an MS-DOS device name, as demonstrated using "prn.htm".

Impacted Vendors

ipswitch 1

progress 1

Reference Links

http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=142&type=vulnerabilities http://www.ipswitch.com/Support/WhatsUp/patch-upgrades.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17418 http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=142&type=vulnerabilities http://www.ipswitch.com/Support/WhatsUp/patch-upgrades.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17418

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-2004-0799 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 20, 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:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.