Multiple vulnerabilities in suidperl 5.6.1 and earlier allow a local user to obtain sensitive information about files for which the user does not have appropriate permissions.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2003-0618 is rated Low Risk (18.5/100): CVSS Low severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.36%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
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 | 0.05% | 0.36% | +0.31% |
| 2 | 2025-03-17 | 0.04% | 0.05% | +0.01% |
| 3 | 2023-03-07 | — | 0.04% | — |
Full EPSS history (4 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1 | 2.0 | LOW |
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3.9 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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not yet assigned | CVE-2003-0618 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (perl), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2003-0618 |
redhat
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low | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2003-0618 |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2003-0618 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (perl), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): released 3, needs-triage 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2003-0618 |
Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114923 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| perl | suidperl | — | cpe:2.3:a:perl:suidperl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| debian | debian_linux | 3.0 | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |