CVE-2003-1023

Midnight Commander vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

5.1%

EPSS pct

92th

Exploited

No known

Stack-based buffer overflow in vfs_s_resolve_symlink of vfs/direntry.c for Midnight Commander (mc) 4.6.0 and earlier, and possibly later versions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code during symlink conversion.

Affected vendor

Midnight Commander

Affected product

Midnight Commander

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2004-01-20

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

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