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CVE-2003-0858

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0858 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Zebra 0.93b and earlier, and Quagga before 0.95. A local attacker can exploit this by sending spoofed messages to the kernel netlink interface, impersonating other users. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and no authentication required, leading to a partial denial of service. There is no impact on confidentiality or integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no exploit code is publicly available via Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. The CVE has received minimal community discussion and no media coverage, suggesting low public awareness and interest.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.91CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:zebra:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 0.95CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:quagga:quagga_routing_software_suite:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
28.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0036 is in the 33rd percentile among its peer group of 2,096 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (8)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: quagga-0:0.96.2-8.3E
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.2
View patch
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
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2003-0858Low

security flaw

Nov 12, 2003

References

secunia.com / advisories/10563
Vendor Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10169
debian.org / security/2004/dsa-415
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2003-305.html
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2003-307.html
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2003-315.html
PatchVendor Advisory