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CVE-2003-0138

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0138 describes a critical vulnerability in Kerberos protocol version 4 (krb4), affecting implementations like Heimdal and MIT Kerberos. An unauthenticated attacker can impersonate any principal within a realm using a chosen-plaintext attack, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the CVSS score is 7.5 (High), indicating a network-exploitable vulnerability with low attack complexity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this older flaw.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos:4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
4.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0428 is in the 82nd 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (12)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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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 9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2003-0138Important

security flaw

Mar 19, 2003

References

marc.info
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A248
web.mit.edu / kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2003-004-krb4.txt
PatchVendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2003/dsa-266
PatchVendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2003/dsa-269
debian.org / security/2003/dsa-273
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/623217
PatchThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2003-051.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2003-052.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2003-091.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/316960/30/25250/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/7113