CVE-2003-0813
A multi-threaded race condition in the Windows RPC DCOM functionality with the MS03-039 patch installed allows remote attackers to cause a…
- 5.1MediumCVSS base score
- 17.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A multi-threaded race condition in the Windows RPC DCOM functionality with the MS03-039 patch installed allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or reboot) by causing two threads to process the same RPC request, which causes one thread to use memory after it has been freed, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-0352 (Blaster/Nachi), CVE-2003-0715, and CVE-2003-0528, and as demonstrated by certain exploits against those vulnerabilities.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 27 days later
· 27 days 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 | Medium5.1 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 17.0% · top 2.9% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
15
- 20031010 Re : [VERY] BAD news on RPC DCOM Exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 20031010 Bad news on RPC DCOM vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20031011 Bad news on RPC DCOM2 vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- VU#547820 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:894 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 20031011 RE: Bad news on RPC DCOM vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- TA04-104A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- MS04-012 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 20031010 Bad news on RPC DCOM vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_NTBUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.securitylab.ru/_exploits/rpc2.c.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20031014 Microsoft RPC Race Condition Denial of Service (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_ISSx_transferred
- 8811 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20031010 Re: Bad news on RPC DCOM vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:900 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:893 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_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-2003-0804 (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-2003-0813)Record last updated .