CVE-2003-1165

Exp

Buffer overflow in BRS WebWeaver 1.06 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an HTTP request with a long User-Agent header.

Published: 2003-12-31 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2003-1165 is rated High Exploit Risk (73.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 18.57%, 95th percentile). Core evidence: 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +10.40% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. 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.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2003-1165

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
23325 exploit_db edb 2003-11-01 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2003-1165

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 2026-01-23 8.17% 18.57% +10.40%
2 2025-06-08 6.70% 8.17% +1.47%
3 2025-03-30 6.70%

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2003-1165

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2003-1165

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2003-1165

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
brs webweaver 0.49_beta cpe:2.3:a:brs:webweaver:0.49_beta:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
brs webweaver 0.50_beta cpe:2.3:a:brs:webweaver:0.50_beta:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
brs webweaver 0.51_beta cpe:2.3:a:brs:webweaver:0.51_beta:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
brs webweaver 0.52_beta cpe:2.3:a:brs:webweaver:0.52_beta:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
brs webweaver 0.60_beta cpe:2.3:a:brs:webweaver:0.60_beta:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
brs webweaver 0.61_beta cpe:2.3:a:brs:webweaver:0.61_beta:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
brs webweaver 0.62_beta cpe:2.3:a:brs:webweaver:0.62_beta:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
brs webweaver 0.63_beta cpe:2.3:a:brs:webweaver:0.63_beta:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
brs webweaver 1.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:brs:webweaver:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
brs webweaver 1.0.2 cpe:2.3:a:brs:webweaver:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
brs webweaver 1.0.3 cpe:2.3:a:brs:webweaver:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
brs webweaver 1.0.4 cpe:2.3:a:brs:webweaver:1.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
brs webweaver 1.0.5 cpe:2.3:a:brs:webweaver:1.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
brs webweaver 1.0.6 cpe:2.3:a:brs:webweaver:1.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2003-1165

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