CVE-2003-0524 — Qt in Knoppix 3.1 Live CD allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the qt_plugins_3.0rc temporary file in the .qt directory

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Qt in Knoppix 3.1 Live CD allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the qt_plugins_3.0rc temporary file in the .qt directory

Published Jul 10, 2003

6.2

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.29%

Description

Qt in Knoppix 3.1 Live CD allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the qt_plugins_3.0rc temporary file in the .qt directory.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.29% 0.00295

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00295

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.29% (0.00295)	20.00th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.29% (0.00295)	20.92th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.06% (0.00060)	15.88th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (1)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105769387706906&w=2
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Link	Providers	Tags
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105769387706906&w=2		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jul 10, 2003

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved Jul 8, 2003

Link CVE-2003-0524

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2003-0524

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2003-0524