CVE-2004-1701: GNU Cfengine

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 19.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the AuthenticationDialogue function in cfservd for Cfengine 2.0.0 to 2.1.7p1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long SAUTH command during RSA authentication.

Affected products

• GNU Cfengine: version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; version 2.0.5 only; …

Published 2004-08-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.