CVE-2004-1038: Ieee Firewire Ieee

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A design error in the IEEE1394 specification allows attackers with physical access to a device to read and write to sensitive memory using a modified FireWire/IEEE 1394 client, thus bypassing intended restrictions that would normally require greater degrees of physical access to exploit. NOTE: this was reported in 2008 to affect Windows Vista, but some Linux-based operating systems have protection mechanisms against this attack.

Affected products

• Ieee Firewire Ieee: version 1394 only

Published 2005-03-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.