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CVE-2003-0259

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0259 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cisco VPN 3000 series concentrators and the Cisco VPN 3002 Hardware Client versions 2.x.x through 3.6.7. A remote attacker can trigger a device reload by sending a specially crafted SSH initialization packet. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with an attack vector over the network, low attack complexity, and potential for partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:cisco:vpn_3015_concentrator:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:cisco:vpn_3030_concentator:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:cisco:vpn_3060_concentrator:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:cisco:vpn_3080_concentrator:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:vpn_3000_concentrator_series_software:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.13%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0213 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 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, 0.0 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

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/11955
cisco.com / warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20030507-vpn3k.shtml
PatchVendor Advisory
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/317348
US Government Resource