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CVE-2003-0065

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0065 describes a vulnerability in the uxterm terminal emulator, specifically affecting the National University of Singapore's version. An attacker can manipulate the window title using a specially crafted character escape sequence. This malicious sequence can then be re-inserted into the user's command line, potentially leading to arbitrary command execution. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity due to its network-based attack vector and low attack complexity, allowing for potential partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no authentication required for exploitation. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there any known public exploit modules or proof-of-concept code available in common exploit databases like Metasploit or ExploitDB. The vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:national_university_of_singapore:uxterm:2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:national_university_of_singapore:uxterm:2.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.78%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0178 is in the 59th 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

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/0093.html
Vendor Advisory
marc.info
iss.net / security_center/static/11414.php
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/6945