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CVE-2003-0988

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0988 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability within the VCF file reader of the KDE Personal Information Management (kdepim) suite, affecting KDE versions 3.1.0 through 3.1.4. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code by enticing a user to open a specially crafted VCF file. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered high severity, posing risks of partial compromise to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion has been observed, the potential for remote code execution warrants attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:3.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:3.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:3.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:3.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
6.15%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0615 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 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, 0.1 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 (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: kdepim-6:3.1.3-3.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 9
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2003-0988Important

security flaw

Jan 14, 2004

References

distro.conectiva.com.br / atualizacoes
marc.info
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200404-02.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/14833
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A858
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A865
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/820798
US Government Resource
kde.org / info/security/advisory-20040114-1.txt
PatchVendor Advisory
mandrakesoft.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2004-005.html
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2004-006.html
securityfocus.com / bid/9419
PatchVendor Advisory