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CVE-2003-1478

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-1478 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Konqueror (KDE 3.0.3) where a specially crafted web page, beginning with a specific byte sequence and containing numerous CRLF sequences, can cause the browser to crash. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium severity, and can be triggered remotely with medium attack complexity, leading to a partial availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild and lacking Metasploit or Nuclei modules, a proof-of-concept exploit is available on ExploitDB, though it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kde:konqueror:3.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-22560 · May 2, 2003
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0421 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/11971
securityfocus.com / archive/1/320266
Exploit
securityfocus.com / bid/7486
Exploit