CVE-2003-0333

high

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in kermit in HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00 (C-Kermit 6.0.192 and possibly other versions before 8.0) allow local users to gain privileges via long arguments to (1) ask, (2) askq, (3) define, (4) assign, and (5) getc, some of which may share the same underlying function "doask," a different vulnerability than CVE-2001-0085.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11929

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7627

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/971364

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105190667523456&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105189670912220&w=2

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/hp/current/0044.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2003-05-19

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00205