CVE-2004-2496

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The HTTP daemon in OpenText FirstClass 7.1 and 8.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service availability loss) via a large number of POST requests to /Search.

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-12/0321.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/13415
http://securitytracker.com/id?1012478
http://www.osvdb.org/12350
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11877
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18424
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-12/0321.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/13415
http://securitytracker.com/id?1012478
http://www.osvdb.org/12350
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11877
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18424

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