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CVE-2003-0059

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0059 describes an unknown vulnerability in the libkrb5 library of MIT Kerberos V5, specifically affecting versions prior to 1.2.5. This flaw allows attackers from one Kerberos realm to impersonate users in other realms if those realms share identical inter-realm keys. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is rated as high severity, indicating that it can be exploited remotely with low complexity, potentially leading to compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there public exploit codes like Metasploit or ExploitDB entries, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, suggesting ongoing interest despite its age.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.55%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0355 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (10)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 6.2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.0
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 8.0
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2003-0059Moderate

security flaw

Jan 28, 2003

References

distro.conectiva.com.br / atualizacoes
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/11188
web.mit.edu / kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2003-001-multiple.txt
PatchVendor Advisory
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/684563
PatchThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
mandrakesoft.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2003-051.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2003-052.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2003-168.html
securityfocus.com / bid/6714
PatchVendor Advisory