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CVE-2003-0328

32
FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0328 describes a denial-of-service and potential arbitrary code execution vulnerability in EPIC IRC Client (EPIC4) versions pre2.002, pre2.003, and possibly later. Malicious IRC servers can trigger this by sending a CTCP request with an oversized nickname, leading to an incorrect length calculation. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity. It is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and no authentication required, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. While not listed on the KEV catalog or Hot List, an exploit (EDB-23366) exists for Epic 1.0.1/1.0.x. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
pre2.002CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:epic:epic4:pre2.002:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
pre2.003CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:epic:epic4:pre2.003:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
8.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-23366 · Nov 10, 2003
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0862 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 51,553 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 (3)

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2003-0328Important

security flaw

Sep 5, 2003

References

ftp.prbh.org / pub/epic/patches/alloca_underrun-patch-1
PatchVendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2003/dsa-306
debian.org / security/2003/dsa-399
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2003-342.html