CVE-2003-0528

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 41.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2003-09-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) interface in the RPCSS Service allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed RPC request with a long filename parameter, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-0352 (Blaster/Nachi) and CVE-2003-0715.

Affected products

Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: enterprise, enterprise_64-bit, r2, standard, web
Microsoft Windows Nt: 4.0, 4.0-sp1, 4.0-sp2, 4.0-sp3, 4.0-sp4, 4.0-sp5 (+2)
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q3/0100.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106407417011430&w=2
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-23.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/254236
http://www.nsfocus.com/english/homepage/research/0306.htm
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2003/ms03-039
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A127
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2884
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2968
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A3966
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q3/0100.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106407417011430&w=2

Get alerted when CVE-2003-0528 or the next vulnerability affects your stack