CVE-2004-2300

Exp

Buffer overflow in snmpd in ucd-snmp 4.2.6 and earlier, when installed setuid root, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long -p command line argument. NOTE: it is not clear whether there are any standard configurations in which snmpd is installed setuid or setgid. If not, then this issue should not be included in CVE.

Published: 2004-12-31 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2004-2300 is rated High Exploit Risk (60.8/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.25%). 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-2004-2300

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2004-2300

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 2025-06-25 0.07% 0.25% +0.18%
2 2025-03-17 0.04% 0.07% +0.03%
3 2023-03-07 — 0.04% —

Full EPSS history (4 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2004-2300

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.2 2.0 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
 3.9 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2004-2300

OS Trackers for CVE-2004-2300

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2004-2300 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (net-snmp), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2004-2300
redhat — — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2004-2300

Vendor comments (NVD) for CVE-2004-2300

  • Red Hat (2006-08-30T00:00:00)

    Not vulnerable. We did not ship snmpd setuid root in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2004-2300

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
ucd-snmp ucd-snmp <= 4.2.6 cpe:2.3:a:ucd-snmp:ucd-snmp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2004-2300

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