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CVE-2003-0773

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0773 describes an authentication bypass vulnerability in saned within sane-backends versions 1.0.7 and earlier. This flaw allows remote attackers to bypass IP address restrictions configured in saned.conf by exploiting the SANE_NET_INIT RPC call. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered highly severe, enabling unauthenticated attackers to achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts over a network with low attack complexity. Despite its age and severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sane:sane:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sane:sane:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sane:sane:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sane:sane:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sane:sane:1.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.94%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0194 is in the 61st percentile among its peer group of 51,455 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 (8)

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
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.1
View patch
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
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2003-0773Moderate

security flaw

Feb 10, 2003

References

ftp.sco.com / pub/updates/OpenLinux/3.1.1/Server/CSSA-2004-005.0/CSSA-2004-005.0.txt
debian.org / security/2003/dsa-379
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2003_046_sane.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2003-278.html
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2003-285.html
securityfocus.com / bid/8593
securityfocus.com / bid/8595
PatchVendor Advisory