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CVE-2002-0003

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-0003 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the preprocessor of GNU groff versions 1.16 and earlier, which can be exploited through the LPRng printing system's lpd. This vulnerability carries a high severity CVSS score of 7.5, indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity and without authentication, potentially leading to partial compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion has been identified, organizations using affected groff versions should still consider patching.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:groff:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.83%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0183 is in the 60th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.0
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2002-0003Important

security flaw

Jan 14, 2002

References

online.securityfocus.com / advisories/3793
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/7881
linux-mandrake.com / en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-012.php
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2002-004.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/3869