9.8
CRITICAL
CVE-2003-0545
OpenSSL ASN.1 Parsing Double Free Vulnerability
Description

Double free vulnerability in OpenSSL 0.9.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an SSL client certificate with a certain invalid ASN.1 encoding.

INFO

Published Date :

Nov. 17, 2003, 5 a.m.

Last Modified :

Feb. 2, 2024, 3:23 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

5.9

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2003-0545 has a 2 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2003-0545 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Openssl openssl
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2003-0545.

URL Resource
http://secunia.com/advisories/22249 Broken Link Vendor Advisory
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21247112 Broken Link
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-26.html Third Party Advisory US Government Resource
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-394 Broken Link
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/935264 Third Party Advisory US Government Resource
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-292.html Broken Link Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8732 Broken Link Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2003/006489/openssl.htm Broken Link Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3900 Broken Link
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2590 Broken Link

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

None

Updated: 2 weeks, 1 day ago
5 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Feb. 23, 2023, 5:42 a.m. This repo has been linked 455 different CVEs too.

$2 hardware SSH keys storage

ssh ssh-key stm32 rsa

C Makefile C++ Shell

Updated: 2 weeks, 4 days ago
154 stars 8 fork 8 watcher
Born at : Nov. 14, 2017, 3:16 p.m. This repo has been linked 2 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2003-0545 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2003-0545 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Feb. 02, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type http://secunia.com/advisories/22249 Vendor Advisory http://secunia.com/advisories/22249 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-26.html US Government Resource http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-26.html Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
    Changed Reference Type http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-394 No Types Assigned http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-394 Broken Link
    Changed Reference Type http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/935264 US Government Resource http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/935264 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
    Changed Reference Type http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-292.html Patch, Vendor Advisory http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-292.html Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8732 No Types Assigned http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8732 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
    Changed Reference Type http://www.uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2003/006489/openssl.htm Patch, Vendor Advisory http://www.uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2003/006489/openssl.htm Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3900 No Types Assigned http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3900 Broken Link
    Changed Reference Type http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21247112 No Types Assigned http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21247112 Broken Link
    Changed Reference Type https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2590 No Types Assigned https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2590 Broken Link
    Removed CWE NIST CWE-119
    Added CWE NIST CWE-415
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 03, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed Reference http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2590 [Tool Signature, US Government Resource]
    Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2590 [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Jan. 01, 2004

    Action Type Old Value New Value
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2003-0545 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2003-0545 weaknesses.

Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

57.96 }} 6.85%

score

0.97768

percentile

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