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CVE-2003-0525

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0525 describes a heap corruption vulnerability in the getCanonicalPath function of Windows NT 4.0. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service by sending requests with excessively long filenames, leading to system crashes. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and no confidentiality or integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage for this older vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:4.0:*:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:4.0:*:server:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:4.0:*:terminal_server:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:4.0:sp1:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:4.0:sp1:server:*:*:*:*:*

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
7.71%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0771 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 23,705 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

docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2003/ms03-029
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/12701
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A319
atstake.com / research/advisories/2003/a072303-1.txt
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