CVE-2003-0537

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.

Published: 2003-08-18 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2003-0537 is rated Low Risk (27.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.35%). Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2003-0537

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 2026-06-15 0.06% 0.35% +0.29%
2 2025-03-17 0.04% 0.06% +0.02%
3 2023-03-07 — 0.04% —

Full EPSS history (4 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2003-0537

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.6 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 3.9 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2003-0537

OS Trackers for CVE-2003-0537

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2003-0537 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (liece), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2003-0537

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2003-0537

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
daiki_ueno liece_emacs_irc_client <= 2.0_0.2003-05-27 cpe:2.3:a:daiki_ueno:liece_emacs_irc_client:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2003-0537

URL Tags
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-341 Patch Vendor Advisory
cvelogic Threat Intelligence