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CVE-2003-0079

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0079 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the hanterm (hanterm-xf) terminal emulator, specifically affecting versions prior to 2.0.5. An attacker can trigger this by sending a specially crafted character escape sequence, causing the terminal to enter an infinite loop. This is a low-severity local attack requiring no authentication, with a potential impact of partial system availability loss. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or KEV entry, though it has garnered significant community discussion on platforms like GitHub.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hanterm:hanterm-xf:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
31.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 49th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 8.0
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2003-0079Moderate

security flaw

Feb 24, 2003

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/0093.html
Vendor Advisory
marc.info
iss.net / security_center/static/11415.php
Vendor Advisory
osvdb.org / 4918
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2003-070.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2003-071.html
securityfocus.com / bid/6944