CUPS before 1.1.19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a partial printing request to the IPP port (631), which does not time out.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2003-0195 is rated High Exploit Risk (66.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 16.37%, 94th percentile). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22619 | exploit_db | edb | 2003-05-20 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2025-03-30 | 17.43% | 16.37% | -1.06% |
| 2 | 2025-03-29 | 16.37% | 17.43% | +1.06% |
| 3 | 2025-03-17 | — | 16.37% | — |
Full EPSS history (8 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
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10.0 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
|
not yet assigned | CVE-2003-0195 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (cups), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2003-0195 |
redhat
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— | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2003-0195 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| slackware | slackware_linux | 8.1 | cpe:2.3:o:slackware:slackware_linux:8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| slackware | slackware_linux | 9.0 | cpe:2.3:o:slackware:slackware_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |