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CVE-2003-0290
Memory leak in eServ 2.9x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a large number of connections,…
Medium5.0EPSS 7.8%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Memory leak in eServ 2.9x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a large number of connections, whose memory is not freed when the connection is terminated.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 21 years later
· 21 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)
- 7.8% · top 5.3% 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 (5)
- eserv-multiple-connections-dos(11973) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20030511 eServ Memory Leak Enables Denial of Service Attacks (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCHx_transferred
- 7552 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20030513 eServ Memory Leak Solution (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20030511 eServ Memory Leak Enables Denial of Service Attacks (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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