CVE-2004-1918: Rsniff

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

RSniff 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection exhaustion) via a large number of connections with a command other than AUTHENTICATE, or without any data, which prevents the socket from being closed properly.

Affected products

• Rsniff Rsniff: version 1.0 only

Published 2004-04-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.