CVE-2003-0795 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the vty layer of Quagga before 0.96.4 and Zebra 0.93b and earlier. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash affected systems by sending a malformed telnet command to the CLI port, potentially leading to a null dereference. Rated with a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and no authentication required, resulting in partial availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the CISA KEV catalog, public exploit code exists, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.91aCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:zebra:0.91a:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.92aCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:zebra:0.92a:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.93aCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:zebra:0.93a:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.93bCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:zebra:0.93b:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 0.96.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:quagga:quagga:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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