CVE-2003-0744 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the fetchnews NNTP client within Leafnode versions 1.9.3 to 1.9.41. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending malformed Usenet news articles, causing the fetchnews process to hang and terminate. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity, leading to a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.9.19CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:leafnode:leafnode:1.9.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.9.20CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:leafnode:leafnode:1.9.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.9.21CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:leafnode:leafnode:1.9.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.9.22CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:leafnode:leafnode:1.9.22:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.9.23CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:leafnode:leafnode:1.9.23:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.