CVE-2004-1182

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

hfaxd in HylaFAX before 4.2.1, when installed with a "weak" hosts.hfaxd file, allows remote attackers to authenticate and bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted (1) username or (2) hostname that satisfies a regular expression that is matched against a hosts.hfaxd entry without a password.

Affected products

Hylafax: 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.1.5, 4.1.6, 4.1.7 (+5)

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110546971307585&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=hylafax&m=110545119911558&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/13812
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200501-21.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-634
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:006
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110546971307585&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=hylafax&m=110545119911558&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/13812
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200501-21.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-634
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:006

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