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CVE-2003-0085

81
FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0085 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in the SMB/CIFS packet fragment re-assembly code of Samba before version 2.2.8 and Samba-TNG before 0.3.1, affecting products like HP CIFS-9000 Server. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. With a CVSS score of 10.0, it represents a severe risk due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on KEV or the Hot List, exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB and Metasploit, indicating a high potential for exploitation, despite a lack of recent community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
87.92%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-16321 · Apr 28, 2010
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.8792 is in the 100th 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 (12)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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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
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 6.2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.0
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.2
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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 9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2003-0085Critical

security flaw

Mar 15, 2003

References

patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20030302-01-I
marc.info
marc.info
marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/8299
secunia.com / advisories/8303
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A552
debian.org / security/2003/dsa-262
PatchVendor Advisory
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200303-11.xml
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/298233
US Government Resource
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2003_016_samba.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2003-095.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2003-096.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/316165/30/25370/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/317145/30/25220/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/7106
PatchVendor Advisory