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CVE-2003-0359

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0359 details a privilege escalation vulnerability in Nethack 3.4.0 and earlier, where insecure permissions on setgid binaries allow local users to replace legitimate code with malicious executables. With a CVSS score of 4.6 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P), this flaw requires local access and low attack complexity, potentially leading to 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 older vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:stichting_mathematisch_centrum:nethack:3.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.6MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
24.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0032 is in the 33rd percentile among its peer group of 3,048 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

debian.org / security/2003/dsa-316
PatchVendor Advisory