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CVE-2003-0988
Buffer overflow in the VCF file information reader for KDE Personal Information Management (kdepim) suite in KDE 3.1.0 through 3.1.4…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 6.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Buffer overflow in the VCF file information reader for KDE Personal Information Management (kdepim) suite in KDE 3.1.0 through 3.1.4 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a VCF file.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 9 months later
· 9 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 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.2% · top 6.5% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
12
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:865 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 20040114 KDE Security Advisory: VCF file information reader vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- GLSA-200404-02 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:858 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- kde-kdepim-bo(14833) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- RHSA-2004:005 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- CLA-2004:810 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CONECTIVAx_transferred
- MDKSA-2004:003 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- VU#820798 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20040114-1.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2004:006 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 9419 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-2003-0978 (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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