CVE-2004-1616

Exp

Links allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a web page or HTML email that contains a table with a td element and a large rowspan value,as demonstrated by mangleme.

Published: 2004-10-18 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2004-1616 is rated High Exploit Risk (61.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.30%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2004-1616

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2004-1616

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-03-17 1.98% 1.30% -0.68%
2 2024-12-17 1.95% 1.98% +0.04%
3 2024-01-28 — 1.95% —

Full EPSS history (5 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2004-1616

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2004-1616

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2004-1616

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
links links 0.91 cpe:2.3:a:links:links:0.91:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
links links 0.92 cpe:2.3:a:links:links:0.92:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
links links 0.93 cpe:2.3:a:links:links:0.93:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
links links 0.94 cpe:2.3:a:links:links:0.94:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
links links 0.95 cpe:2.3:a:links:links:0.95:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
links links 0.96 cpe:2.3:a:links:links:0.96:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
links links 0.97 cpe:2.3:a:links:links:0.97:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
links links 0.98 cpe:2.3:a:links:links:0.98:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
links links 0.99 cpe:2.3:a:links:links:0.99:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2004-1616

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