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CVE-2003-0909

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0909 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Windows XP, allowing local users to execute arbitrary programs with elevated privileges. This is achieved by manipulating the Task Scheduler service or eventtriggers.exe. With a CVSS score of 7.2, this vulnerability is considered highly severe due to its low attack complexity and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there's no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, indicating notable awareness.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*:gold:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.2HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
20.85%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2085 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 3,241 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2004/ms04-011
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/15678
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1004
ciac.org / ciac/bulletins/o-114.shtml
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/206468
PatchThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/10125
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA04-104A.html
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource