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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.6

CVE-2003-0537 json

The liece Emacs IRC client 2.0+0.20030527 and earlier creates temporary files insecurely, which could allow local users to overwrite arbitr…

published 2003-07-10 23 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2003-0531

cvss
4.6
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 28%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The liece Emacs IRC client 2.0+0.20030527 and earlier creates temporary files insecurely, which could allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files as other users.

Patch / fix

  • liece Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.0+0.20030527cvs-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0537

Exploit prediction

0.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 28% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

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

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.