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CVE-2003-0027

38
FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0027 describes a directory traversal vulnerability in the Sun Kodak Color Management System (KCMS) library service daemon (kcms_server), affecting Sun Solaris and SunOS. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to read arbitrary files by exploiting the KCS_OPEN_PROFILE procedure. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), it indicates a network-exploitable vulnerability with low attack complexity, requiring no authentication, and primarily impacting confidentiality. While not on the KEV catalog or actively exploited, a Metasploit module exists for this vulnerability, and it has a high FAUCET Risk Score of 98/100, despite minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:2.5.1:*:x86:*:*:*:*:*
2.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:7.0:*:x86:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:8.0:*:x86:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:9.0:*:sparc:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
25.72%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Solaris KCMS + TTDB Arbitrary File Read · Jan 22, 2003
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2572 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 23,684 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

marc.info
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/11129
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A120
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A195
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2592
sunsolve.sun.com / pub-cgi/retrieve.pl
entercept.com / news/uspr/01-22-03.asp
PatchVendor Advisory
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/850785
PatchThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/6665