CVE-2003-5001 describes a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in ISS BlackICE PC Protection, specifically within its Cross Site Scripting Detection component. This flaw allows a remote attacker to elevate privileges through manipulated POST/PUT/DELETE/OPTIONS requests. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the exploit has been publicly disclosed, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there readily available exploit modules in common frameworks, and it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:iss_blackice_pc_protection:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.