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CVE-2003-1518

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-1518 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Adiscon WinSyslog 4.21 SP1, where a remote attacker can consume excessive CPU resources by sending a specially crafted, long syslog message. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a critical impact with complete availability loss, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity and no authentication. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.21_sp1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adiscon:winsyslog:4.21_sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0_betaCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adiscon:winsyslog:5.0_beta:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
7.22%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-23242 · Oct 14, 2003
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0722 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/13428
adiscon.com / Common/en/advisory/2003-09-15.asp
securiteam.com / windowsntfocus/6L00F158KE.html
securityfocus.com / bid/8821
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