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CVE-2003-0204

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0204 describes a vulnerability in KDE 2 and KDE 3.1.1 and earlier 3.x versions, allowing arbitrary command execution through malicious PostScript or PDF files. This occurs due to missing security arguments (-dPARANOIDSAFER and -dSAFER) when using the kghostview Ghostscript viewer. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
4.03%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0403 is in the 81st 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)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 8.0
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2003-0204

security flaw

Apr 3, 2003

References

bugs.kde.org / show_bug.cgi
bugs.kde.org / show_bug.cgi
distro.conectiva.com.br / atualizacoes
distro.conectiva.com.br / atualizacoes
marc.info
marc.info
marc.info
marc.info
debian.org / security/2003/dsa-284
PatchVendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2003/dsa-293
debian.org / security/2003/dsa-296
kde.org / info/security/advisory-20030409-1.txt
PatchVendor Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2003-002.html