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CVE-2003-0788

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0788 describes an unknown vulnerability within the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) implementation of CUPS versions prior to 1.1.19. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service by causing excessive CPU consumption through a "busy loop" when sending specific inputs to the IPP port (TCP 631). With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having 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 surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:easy_software_products:cups:1.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.4_8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:easy_software_products:cups:1.0.4_8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:easy_software_products:cups:1.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:easy_software_products:cups:1.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.4_2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:easy_software_products:cups:1.1.4_2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0232 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 23,705 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 8.0
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 9
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2003-0788Moderate

security flaw

Nov 3, 2003

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
distro.conectiva.com.br / atualizacoes
distro.conectiva.com.br / atualizacoes/index.php
secunia.com / advisories/10123
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/13584
mandrakesecure.net / en/advisories/advisory.php
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2003-275.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/8952
PatchVendor Advisory
turbolinux.com / security/TLSA-2003-63.txt