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CVE-2003-1461

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-1461 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the rwrite utility within HP-UX 11.0, potentially allowing local users to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability carries a high severity CVSS score of 7.2, indicating that a local attacker with low attack complexity could achieve complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, an exploit for this vulnerability (EDB-22561) is available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
11.00CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:11.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-22561 · May 2, 2003
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0153 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 3,241 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 0.5 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

securityreason.com / securityalert/3283
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/11919
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A4897
securityfocus.com / archive/1/320323
Exploit
securityfocus.com / archive/1/320371
Exploit
securityfocus.com / bid/7489
ExploitPatch