Vulnerability Report

CVE-2004-2394

Title: passwd off-by-one password brute force reduction

Weak Cryptography

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2004-2394.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Dec 31, 2004

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.08%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2004-2394: Off-by-one error in passwd 0.68 and earlier, when using the --stdin option, causes passwd to use the first 78 characters of a password instead of the first 79, which results in a small reduction of the search space required for brute force attacks.

Impacted Vendors

mandrakesoft 1

Reference Links

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120060 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:045 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10370 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16178 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120060 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:045 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10370 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16178

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2004-2394 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 31, 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:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.