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CVE-2003-0528
Heap-based buffer overflow in the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) interface in the RPCSS Service allows remote attackers to…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 41.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) interface in the RPCSS Service allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed RPC request with a long filename parameter, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-0352 (Blaster/Nachi) and CVE-2003-0715.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 months later
· 2 months 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 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 41.0% · top 1.3% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- CA-2003-23 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2884 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://www.nsfocus.com/english/homepage/research/0306.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:127 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 20030920 The Analysis of RPC Long Filename Heap Overflow AND a Way to Write Universal Heap Overflow of Windows (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:3966 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2968 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 20030911 NSFOCUS SA2003-06 : Microsoft Windows RPC DCOM Interface Heap Overflow Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCHx_transferred
- MS03-039 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- VU#254236 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_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-2003-0522 (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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