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CVE-2003-0648

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0648 describes multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities in vfte, a text editor based on FTE, specifically versions prior to 0.50, affecting Debian Linux and FTE text editor products. This vulnerability carries a critical CVSS score of 10.0, indicating that it is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity and can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

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

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0517 is in the 85th 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 (1)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

secunia.com / advisories/11290
securitytracker.com / id
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/15726
debian.org / security/2004/dsa-472
PatchVendor Advisory
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/354838
US Government Resource
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/900964
US Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/10041