CVE-2003-0897 — "Shatter" vulnerability in CommCtl32.dll in Windows XP may allow local users to execute arbitrary code by sending (1) BCM_GETTEXTMARGIN or (2) BCM_SETTEXTMARGIN button control messages to privileged applications

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"Shatter" vulnerability in CommCtl32.dll in Windows XP may allow local users to execute arbitrary code by sending (1) BCM_GETTEXTMARGIN or (2) BCM_SETTEXTMARGIN button control messages to privileged applications

Published Oct 25, 2003

4.6

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.34%

Description

"Shatter" vulnerability in CommCtl32.dll in Windows XP may allow local users to execute arbitrary code by sending (1) BCM_GETTEXTMARGIN or (2) BCM_SETTEXTMARGIN button control messages to privileged applications.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.34% 0.01342

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

EPSS probability 0.01342

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)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.34% (0.01342)	70.32th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.88% (0.01878)	76.63th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.33% (0.00333)	53.94th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00043)	11.28th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 20, 2024	0.04% (0.00043)	9.52th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00043)	7.51th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	2.49% (0.02488)	81.66th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	2.49% (0.02488)	79.91th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	2.49% (0.02488)	58.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (2)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106692772510010&w=2
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/13558
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106692772510010&w=2		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/13558		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Oct 25, 2003

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved Oct 24, 2003

Link CVE-2003-0897

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2003-0897

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2003-0897