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CVE-2004-2300

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.2)—

Buffer overflow in snmpd in ucd-snmp 4.2.6 and earlier, when installed setuid root, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long -p command line argument. NOTE: it is not clear whether there are any standard configurations in which snmpd is installed setuid or setgid. If not, then this issue should not be included in CVE.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Ucd-snmp — Ucd-snmp

CWEs

References

Raw JSON (NVD)

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  "lastModified": "2026-06-16T22:09:23.977",
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