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high 7.5

CVE-2003-0963 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflows in (1) try_netscape_proxy and (2) try_squid_eplf for lftp 2.6.9 and earlier allow remote HTTP servers to execute arbitrary…

published 2003-12-17 22 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2003-0953

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
14.7%
EPSS 14.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflows in (1) try_netscape_proxy and (2) try_squid_eplf for lftp 2.6.9 and earlier allow remote HTTP servers to execute arbitrary code via long directory names that are processed by the ls or rels commands.

Patch / fix

  • lftp Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.6.10-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0963

  • lftp RHEL 3 2.6.3-5

red hat advisories RHSA-2003:404

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2003-0963 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 lftp 2.6.3-5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 lftp 2.6.3-5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 lftp 2.6.3-5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 lftp 2.6.3-5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2003:404
  • Red Hat Linux 7.2 Red Hat Linux 7.3 Red Hat Linux 8.0 Red Hat Linux 9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2003:403

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-143)

Exploit prediction

14.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-143 lftp 2.6.9 - Remote Stack Overflow remote, 2004-01-14

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.