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CVE-2003-0720

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0720 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in PINE versions prior to 4.58, specifically impacting the University of Washington's Pine email client. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending a specially crafted message/external-body MIME type. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not currently on CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code exists, and the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating its potential for exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.98CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:3.98:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:4.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:4.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:4.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:4.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
12.89%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-99 · Sep 16, 2003
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1289 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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 (9)

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
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 8.0
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2003-0720Important

security flaw

Sep 10, 2003

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/vulnwatch/2003-q3/0099.html
marc.info
marc.info
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A499
idefense.com / advisory/09.10.03.txt
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2003-273.html
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2003-274.html