CVE-2003-1478

Exp

Konqueror in KDE 3.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (core dump) via a web page that begins with a "xFFxFE" byte sequence and a large number of CRLF sequences, as demonstrated using freeze.htm.

Published: 2003-12-31 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
View at NVD, CVE.org, EUVD

CVE-2003-1478 is rated High Exploit Risk (61.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.36%). 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). 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-2003-1478

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
22560 exploit_db edb 2003-05-02 Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2003-1478

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 2025-11-18 2.17% 2.36% +0.20%
2 2025-03-30 2.34% 2.17% -0.18%
3 2025-03-29 — 2.34% —

Full EPSS history (9 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2003-1478

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/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:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
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.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2003-1478

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2003-1478

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
kde konqueror 3.0.3 cpe:2.3:a:kde:konqueror:3.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2003-1478

cvelogic Threat Intelligence