The administration interface in Monit 1.4 through 4.2 allows remote attackers to cause an off-by-one overflow via a POST that contains 1024 bytes.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2004-1899 is rated Exploit Available (59.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.74%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
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| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
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 | 2025-03-30 | 0.80% | 0.74% | -0.05% |
| 2 | 2025-03-29 | 0.74% | 0.80% | +0.05% |
| 3 | 2025-03-17 | — | 0.74% | — |
Full EPSS history (7 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
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10.0 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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not yet assigned | CVE-2004-1899 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (monit), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2004-1899 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| tildeslash | monit | 1.4 | cpe:2.3:a:tildeslash:monit:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| tildeslash | monit | 3.0 | cpe:2.3:a:tildeslash:monit:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| tildeslash | monit | 3.1 | cpe:2.3:a:tildeslash:monit:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| tildeslash | monit | 3.2 | cpe:2.3:a:tildeslash:monit:3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| tildeslash | monit | 4.0 | cpe:2.3:a:tildeslash:monit:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| tildeslash | monit | 4.1 | cpe:2.3:a:tildeslash:monit:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| tildeslash | monit | 4.1.1 | cpe:2.3:a:tildeslash:monit:4.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| tildeslash | monit | 4.2 | cpe:2.3:a:tildeslash:monit:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| tildeslash | monit | 4.3_beta_2 | cpe:2.3:a:tildeslash:monit:4.3_beta_2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |