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CVE-2003-0744

15
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 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
1.84%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0184 is in the 64th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 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

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/vulnwatch/2003-q3
Vendor Advisory
leafnode.sourceforge.net / leafnode-SA-2003-01.txt
marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/9678
osvdb.org / 6452
securityfocus.com / bid/8541