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CVE-2003-1053

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-1053 describes multiple buffer overflows in the XShisen application. Attackers can leverage these vulnerabilities by supplying excessively long input to the -KCONV command line option or the XSHISENLIB environment variable, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.6, indicating a low severity with local access required for exploitation and potential impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code or significant community discussion has been identified.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xshisen:xshisen:1.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.6MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
41.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0053 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 3,050 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/9950
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/13358
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/13359
securityfocus.com / bid/8770
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/8776
PatchVendor Advisory
vuxml.org / freebsd/56971fa6-641c-11d9-a097-000854d03344.html
Vendor Advisory