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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.6

CVE-2003-0281 json

Buffer overflow in Firebird 1.0.2 and other versions before 1.5, and possibly other products that use the InterBase codebase, allows local…

published 2003-05-14 23 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2003-0276

cvss
4.6
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 63%
public exploits
3
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in Firebird 1.0.2 and other versions before 1.5, and possibly other products that use the InterBase codebase, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long INTERBASE environment variable when calling (1) gds_inet_server, (2) gds_lock_mgr, or (3) gds_drop.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-21565)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

1.01% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 63% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-21566 Interbase 6.0 - GDS_Drop Interbase Environment Variable Buffer Overflow (2) local, 2002-06-18
  • EDB-21565 Interbase 6.0 - GDS_Drop Interbase Environment Variable Buffer Overflow (1) local, 2002-06-15
  • EDB-29 Firebird 1.0.2 (FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE) - Local Privilege Escalation local, 2003-05-12

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

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