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CVE-2003-0990

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0990 describes a command injection vulnerability in SquirrelMail 1.4.0 and its GPG Plugin 1.1. Remote attackers can execute arbitrary commands by injecting shell metacharacters into the "To:" field. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity with network-based exploitation, low attack complexity, and potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not on the KEV catalog, exploit code exists in Metasploit and ExploitDB, and the CVE has garnered significant community discussion, suggesting a high potential for exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
N/AN/A
n/aCNA affected

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
28.79%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: SquirrelMail PGP Plugin Command Execution (SMTP) · Jul 9, 2007
ExploitDB: EDB-16888 · Aug 25, 2010
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2879 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

marc.info
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/14079
bugtraq.org / advisories/_BSSADV-0001.txt
securityfocus.com / archive/1/348366
ExploitVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/9296
Vendor Advisory