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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2003-0839 json

Directory traversal vulnerability in the "Shell Folders" capability in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 allows remote attackers to read arbitr…

published 2003-10-09 23 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2003-0830

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
13.5%
EPSS 13.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in the "Shell Folders" capability in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via .. (dot dot) sequences in a "shell:" link.

Exploit prediction

13.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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.