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CVE-2004-1897

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 8.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Administration interface in Monit 1.4 through 4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) by sending a Basic Authentication request without a password, which causes Monit to decrement a null pointer and perform an out-of-bounds read.

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108119149103696&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/11304
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10051
• http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/changes.html
• http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/secadv_20040305.txt
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15734
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108119149103696&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/11304
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10051
• http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/changes.html
• http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/secadv_20040305.txt
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15734

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