CVE-2003-0973

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2003-12-15 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unknown vulnerability in mod_python 3.0.x before 3.0.4, and 2.7.x before 2.7.9, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (httpd crash) via a certain query string.

Affected products

Apache Mod Python: 2.7, 2.7.1, 2.7.2, 2.7.3, 2.7.4, 2.7.5 (+7)

References

http://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1325
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000837
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-452
http://www.modpython.org/pipermail/mod_python/2003-November/004005.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-058.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-063.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10259
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A828
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A839
http://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1325
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000837
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-452

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