CVE-2004-2609 — The stuffit.com executable on Symantec PowerQuest DeployCenter 5.5 boot disks allows local users to obtain sensitive information (an unencrypted password for a Windows domain account) via four "stuffit /f:stuffit.dat" invocations, possibly due to a buffer overflow

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The stuffit.com executable on Symantec PowerQuest DeployCenter 5.5 boot disks allows local users to obtain sensitive information (an unencrypted password for a Windows domain account) via four "stuffit /f:stuffit.dat" invocations, possibly due to a buffer overflow

Published Dec 4, 2005

2.1

LOW

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.38%

Description

The stuffit.com executable on Symantec PowerQuest DeployCenter 5.5 boot disks allows local users to obtain sensitive information (an unencrypted password for a Windows domain account) via four "stuffit /f:stuffit.dat" invocations, possibly due to a buffer overflow.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.38% 0.00377

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

EPSS probability 0.00377

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 (10 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.38% (0.00377)	29.25th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.38% (0.00377)	29.25th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.10% (0.00104)	26.04th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00043)	11.33th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00043)	9.47th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00043)	7.45th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.95% (0.00950)	32.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.95% (0.00950)	30.63th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.95% (0.00950)	28.61th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.95% (0.00950)	13.46th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (5)

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-08/1180.html
mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://securitytracker.com/id?1011081
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.osvdb.org/9276
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11068
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17147
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-08/1180.html		mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://securitytracker.com/id?1011081		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.osvdb.org/9276		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11068		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17147		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Dec 4, 2005

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved Dec 4, 2005

Link CVE-2004-2609

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2004-2609

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2004-2609