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CVE-2003-0220

75
FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0220 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in Kerio Personal Firewall (KPF) versions 2.1.4 and earlier. This flaw allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending a specially crafted handshake packet during the administrator authentication process. With a CVSS score of 7.5 and an EPSS score indicating high exploitability, this vulnerability poses a significant risk. Exploit code is publicly available, including multiple Metasploit modules and ExploitDB entries, though there is no evidence of active exploitation in the wild or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kerio:personal_firewall_2:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kerio:personal_firewall_2:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kerio:personal_firewall_2:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kerio:personal_firewall_2:2.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kerio:personal_firewall_2:2.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
69.09%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Kerio Firewall 2.1.4 Authentication Packet Overflow · Apr 28, 2003
ExploitDB: EDB-16465 · Jun 15, 2010
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.6909 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

marc.info
coresecurity.com / common/showdoc.php
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/454716
US Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/7180