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CVE-2003-0122
Buffer overflow in Notes server before Lotus Notes R4, R5 before 5.0.11, and early R6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code…
Medium5.0EPSS 10.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Buffer overflow in Notes server before Lotus Notes R4, R5 before 5.0.11, and early R6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long distinguished name (DN) during NotesRPC authentication and an outer field length that is less than that of the DN field.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 18 months later
· 18 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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 10.1% · top 4.3% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- CA-2003-11 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- N-065 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisorygovernment-resourcex_refsource_CIACx_transferred
- lotus-nrpc-bo(11526) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20030313 R7-0010: Buffer Overflow in Lotus Notes Protocol Authentication (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCHx_transferred
- http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0010.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- VU#433489 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=482&q=Domino&uid=swg21105101 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 7037 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20030313 R7-0010: Buffer Overflow in Lotus Notes Protocol Authentication (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_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)
- 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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