CVE-2003-1462

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2003-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

mod_survey 3.0.0 through 3.0.15-pre6 does not check whether a survey exists before creating a subdirectory for it, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption and possible crash).

Affected products

Mod Survey: 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5 (+17)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-05/0058.html
http://gathering.itm.mh.se/modsurvey/SA20030504.txt
http://gathering.itm.mh.se/modsurvey/changelog.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7498
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11861
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-05/0058.html
http://gathering.itm.mh.se/modsurvey/SA20030504.txt
http://gathering.itm.mh.se/modsurvey/changelog.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7498
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11861

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