CVE-2003-0003
Buffer overflow in the RPC Locator service for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition, Windows 2000, and Windows…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 43.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Buffer overflow in the RPC Locator service for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition, Windows 2000, and Windows XP allows local users to execute arbitrary code via an RPC call to the service containing certain parameter information.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Microsoft Windows 2000/NT 4 - RPC Locator Service Remote Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 5remote, windowspublished 3 Apr 2003Verified
- Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT 4.0 - Locator Service Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 22194remote, windowspublished 22 Jan 2003Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 20 months later
· 20 months later
Published
- 20 years later
· 20 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 43.4% · top 1.3% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- MS03-001 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 20030130 Microsoft RPC Locator Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (#NISR29012003) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:103 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- win-locator-bo(11132) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 6666 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- VU#610986 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- CA-2003-03 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 20030130 Microsoft RPC Locator Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (#NISR29012003) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_NTBUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2003-0003 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2003-0003)Record last updated .