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CVE-2004-1112· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

The buffer overflow trigger in Cisco Security Agent (CSA) before 4.0.3 build 728 waits five minutes for a user response before terminating t

The buffer overflow trigger in Cisco Security Agent (CSA) before 4.0.3 build 728 waits five minutes for a user response before terminating the process, which could allow remote attackers to bypass the buffer overflow protection by sending additional buffer overflow attacks within the five minute timeout period.

MediumCVSS 5.1 · v2.0—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Jan 10, 2005
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
1.5% · 73th percentile
CWE
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Action score

20

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
20 / 40 · 5.1 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 1.5%

Affected systems

VendorProduct
ciscosecurity agent
okenastormwatch

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • cisco security agent3
  • cisco security agent4.0
  • cisco security agent4.0.1
  • cisco security agent4.0.2
  • cisco security agent4.0.3
  • okena stormwatch3.x

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  • CVE-2011-0364The Management Console (webagent.exe) in Cisco Security Agent 5.1, 5.2, and 6.0 before 6.0.2.145 allows remote attackers to create arbitrary
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    42Plan
  • CVE-2010-0148Unspecified vulnerability in Cisco Security Agent 5.2 before 5.2.0.285, when running on Linux, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
    32Monitor
  • CVE-2006-5553Cisco Security Agent (CSA) for Linux 4.5 before 4.5.1.657 and 5.0 before 5.0.0.193, as used by Unified CallManager (CUCM) and Unified Presen
    32Monitor
  • CVE-2010-0146Directory traversal vulnerability in the Management Center for Cisco Security Agents 6.0 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2005-3886Unspecified vulnerability in Cisco Security Agent (CSA) 4.5.0 and 4.5.1 agents, when running on Windows systems, allows local users to bypas
    28Monitor

Remediation

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Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.

If successful

Confidentiality
P · data can be read
Integrity
P · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
P · the service can be disrupted
Attack complexity
High
Confidentiality impact
P
Integrity impact
P
Availability impact
P

Weakness class (CWE)

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CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

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