CVE-2004-1313 — The Smc.exe process in My Firewall Plus 5.0 build 1117, and possibly other versions, does not drop privileges before invoking help, which allows local users to gain privileges

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The Smc.exe process in My Firewall Plus 5.0 build 1117, and possibly other versions, does not drop privileges before invoking help, which allows local users to gain privileges

Published Dec 22, 2004

7.2

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.37%

Description

The Smc.exe process in My Firewall Plus 5.0 build 1117, and possibly other versions, does not drop privileges before invoking help, which allows local users to gain privileges.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.37% 0.00371

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00371

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 (9 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.37% (0.00371)	28.64th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.37% (0.00371)	28.67th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.05% (0.00046)	11.40th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00890)	30.33th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	28.64th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	26.62th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	12.04th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (2)

http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2004-16/
x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18622
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2004-16/		x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18622		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Dec 22, 2004

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved Dec 21, 2004

Link CVE-2004-1313

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2004-1313

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2004-1313