CVE-2004-1039 — The NFS mountd service on SCO UnixWare 7.1.1, 7.1.3, 7.1.4, and 7.0.1, and possibly other versions, when run from inetd, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a series of requests, which causes inetd to launch a separate process for each request

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The NFS mountd service on SCO UnixWare 7.1.1, 7.1.3, 7.1.4, and 7.0.1, and possibly other versions, when run from inetd, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a series of requests, which causes inetd to launch a separate process for each request

Published Jan 19, 2005

5.0

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.59%

Description

The NFS mountd service on SCO UnixWare 7.1.1, 7.1.3, 7.1.4, and 7.0.1, and possibly other versions, when run from inetd, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a series of requests, which causes inetd to launch a separate process for each request.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.59% 0.01591

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 3, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01591

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (12 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 3, 2026	1.59% (0.01591)	74.82th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.59% (0.01591)	72.41th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.76% (0.00763)	71.68th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.84% (0.00837)	82.76th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jul 10, 2024	0.84% (0.00837)	82.22th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Dec 27, 2023	0.84% (0.00837)	80.19th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 11, 2023	1.25% (0.01253)	83.52th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	1.76% (0.01760)	86.02th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.61th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 17, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.22th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	64.21th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	40.54th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (4)

ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.1/SCOSA-2005.1.txt
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SCOPatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/13805
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/386814
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12225
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Link	Providers	Tags
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.1/SCOSA-2005.1.txt		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SCOPatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/13805		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/386814		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12225		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jan 19, 2005

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved Nov 16, 2004

Link CVE-2004-1039

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2004-1039

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2004-1039