CVE-2003-0545
CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS Score
Published: October 1, 2003 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:02 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorOpenSSL
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Severity
CRITICAL9.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 87%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (10)
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken LinkVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/22249x_refsource_CONFIRMBroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21247112Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERTUS Government Resource
Source: [email protected]
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-26.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANBroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-394Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
Source: [email protected]
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/935264Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATBroken LinkPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-292.htmlVDB Entryx_refsource_BIDBroken LinkThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8732x_refsource_MISCBroken LinkPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2003/006489/openssl.htmCVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-415
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