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CVE-2003-0041 (GCVE-0-2003-0041)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2003-02-01 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 01:43
VLAI
Summary
Kerberos FTP client allows remote FTP sites to execute arbitrary code via a pipe (|) character in a filename that is retrieved by the client.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://secunia.com/advisories/7979 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/… mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCH
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-020.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKE
Date Public
2003-01-31 00:00
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      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2003/cve-2003-0041.json",
      "version": "3"
    }
  }
}



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Taxonomy of the tags.





Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.