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CVE-2003-0855

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0855 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Pan 0.13.3 and earlier, where a remote attacker can crash the application by submitting a news post containing an excessively long author email address. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a critical impact with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a complete loss of availability. Despite its severity, there is no known exploit code available in common databases like Metasploit or ExploitDB, and it shows no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.13.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:charles_kerr:pan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.07%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0207 is in the 64th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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 (10)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
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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
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.3
View patch
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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redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2003-0855Low

security flaw

Feb 25, 2003

References

patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20040202-01-U.asc
bugzilla.gnome.org / show_bug.cgi
ExploitPatch
bugzilla.redhat.com / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Vendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2003-311.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2003-312.html