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CVE-2003-0196

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0196 is a critical buffer overflow vulnerability affecting Samba versions prior to 2.2.8a, as well as products from Compaq, HP, and Sun. With a CVSS score of 10.0, it allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service with low attack complexity. While no active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion has been identified, its high severity and remote attack vector warrant immediate patching.

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
22.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2276 is in the 96th 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 (10)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1
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
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 8.0
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2003-0196Critical

security flaw

Apr 7, 2003

References

marc.info
marc.info
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A564
debian.org / security/2003/dsa-280
PatchVendor Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2003-137.html
PatchVendor Advisory