CVE-2003-0933 — Buffer overflow in conquest 7.2 and earlier may allow a local user to execute arbitrary code via a long environment variable

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MEDIUM

Buffer overflow in conquest 7.2 and earlier may allow a local user to execute arbitrary code via a long environment variable

Published Nov 12, 2003

4.6

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.40%

Description

Buffer overflow in conquest 7.2 and earlier may allow a local user to execute arbitrary code via a long environment variable.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.40% 0.00401

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

EPSS probability 0.00401

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 (8 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.40% (0.00401)	31.90th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.40% (0.00403)	31.81th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.09% (0.00091)	23.68th	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	2.99% (0.02994)	83.58th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	2.99% (0.02994)	81.91th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	2.99% (0.02994)	64.40th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (1)

http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-398
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANPatchVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-398		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANPatchVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Nov 12, 2003

Updated Sep 16, 2024

Reserved Nov 7, 2003

Link CVE-2003-0933

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2003-0933

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2003-0933