Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2003-0231

40
FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0231 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Microsoft SQL Server 7, 2000, and MSDE. Authenticated attackers can crash or hang the server by sending an excessively long request to a named pipe. While the CVSS score is moderate (5.0), its FAUCET Risk Score is high (95/100), indicating significant potential impact despite a low EPSS score. Although not in the KEV catalog, an ExploitDB entry exists, suggesting public exploit code, but there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:data_engine:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:sql_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:sql_server:7.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:sql_server:7.0:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:sql_server:7.0:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
36.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-22957 · Jul 23, 2003
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.3618 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 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, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2003/ms03-031
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A299
atstake.com / research/advisories/2003/a072303-2.txt
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/918652
US Government Resource