{"cve":"CVE-2004-1038","nvd":{"published":"2005-03-01T05:00:00.000","modified":"2026-06-16T22:06:54.130","status":"Modified","description":"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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/04/1258210","http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109881362530790&w=2","http://md.hudora.de/presentations/firewire/2005-firewire-cansecwest.pdf","http://pacsec.jp/advisories.html","http://storm.net.nz/projects/16"],"products":["ieee:firewire_ieee"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:38:22.000386253+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2004-1038","score":0.00483,"percentile":0.41637,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}