Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2003-0003 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in the RPC Locator service for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition, Windows 2000, and Windows…

published 2003-02-07 23 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2003-0003

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
43.4%
EPSS 43.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in the RPC Locator service for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition, Windows 2000, and Windows XP allows local users to execute arbitrary code via an RPC call to the service containing certain parameter information.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-22194)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

43.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-22194 Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT 4.0 - Locator Service Buffer Overflow remote, 2003-01-22
  • EDB-5 Microsoft Windows 2000/NT 4 - RPC Locator Service Remote Overflow remote, 2003-04-03

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.