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CVE-2003-0792

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0792 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Fetchmail versions 6.2.4 and earlier. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash the software by sending a specially crafted email with excessively long lines, due to improper memory allocation. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 6.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.5.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.5.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.94%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0194 is in the 66th 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

Vendor Patches (1)

gentoovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2003-0792Moderate

security flaw

Oct 16, 2003

References

ftp.sco.com / pub/updates/OpenLinux/3.1.1/Server/CSSA-2004-004.0/CSSA-2004-004.0.txt
marc.info
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200403-10.xml
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/13450
mandriva.com / security/advisories
securityfocus.com / advisories/5987
securityfocus.com / bid/8843
PatchVendor Advisory
turbolinux.com / security/TLSA-2003-61.txt