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CVE-2003-1439
Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC) 0.9.11 and 0.9.12 stores passwords and sessions in plaintext in memory, which could allow local…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 0.97%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 38% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC) 0.9.11 and 0.9.12 stores passwords and sessions in plaintext in memory, which could allow local users to obtain sensitive information.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 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 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.97% · top 38% 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: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
4
- silc-plaintext-account-information(11244) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20030201 Re: silc question - insecure memory (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 6743 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20030201 silc question - insecure memory (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-2003-1429 (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-2003-1439)Record last updated .