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CVE-2003-0297

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0297 describes a denial-of-service and potential arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the c-client IMAP Client, affecting imap-2002b and Pine 4.53. Malicious IMAP servers can exploit this by sending large literal or mailbox size values, triggering integer signedness or overflow errors. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered highly severe due to its network-based attack vector and low complexity, potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:c-client:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:imap-2002b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.53CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:4.53:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.74%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0274 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 51,506 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 (4)

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
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2003-0297Low

security flaw

May 14, 2003

References

marc.info
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-015.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-114.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/430302/100/0/threaded