CVE-2003-0947
Buffer overflow in iwconfig, when installed setuid, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long OUT environment variable.
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 1.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 28% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 4Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Buffer overflow in iwconfig, when installed setuid, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long OUT environment variable.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 4 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits4
Exploit-DB4 entries
- Wireless Tools 26 (IWConfig) - Local Privilege Escalation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 1215local, linuxpublished 14 Sept 2005Verified
- Wireless Tools 26 (IWConfig) - ARGV Local Command Line Buffer Overflow (2) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 23300local, linuxpublished 11 Nov 2003Verified
- Wireless Tools 26 (IWConfig) - ARGV Local Command Line Buffer Overflow (1) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 23299local, linuxpublished 27 Oct 2003Verified
- Wireless Tools 26 (IWConfig) - ARGV Local Command Line Buffer Overflow (3) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 23301local, linuxpublished 27 Oct 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
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By mitre
- 5 days later
· 5 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 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 28% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References1
- 20031112 iwconfig vulnerability - the last code was demaged sending by email (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)
- EUVD EUVD-2003-0937 (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-2003-0947)Record last updated .