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CVE-2003-0618

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0618 describes multiple vulnerabilities in suidperl 5.6.1 and earlier, affecting Debian Linux and Perl's suidperl component. A local attacker can exploit this to gain sensitive information about files without proper permissions. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), indicating local access, low attack complexity, no authentication required, and a partial confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it has received negligible community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:perl:suidperl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0036 is in the 36th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 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 (5)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Desktop version 3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2003-0618Low

leaks file existance information

Jul 30, 2003

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/15012
debian.org / security/2004/dsa-431
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/9543