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high 7.5

CVE-2003-0962 in the critical feed json

Heap-based buffer overflow in rsync before 2.5.7, when running in server mode, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and possib…

published 2003-12-10 22 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2003-0952

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
23.5%
EPSS 23.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in rsync before 2.5.7, when running in server mode, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and possibly escape the chroot jail.

Patch / fix

  • rsync Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.5.6-1.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0962

  • rsync RHEL 3 2.5.7-1

red hat advisories RHSA-2003:399

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-2003-0962 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 rsync 2.5.7-1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 rsync 2.5.7-1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 rsync 2.5.7-1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 rsync 2.5.7-1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2003:399
  • Red Hat Linux 7.1 Red Hat Linux 7.2 Red Hat Linux 7.3 Red Hat Linux 8.0 Red Hat Linux 9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2003:398

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

Exploit prediction

23.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

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

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