Vulnerability Report

CVE-2003-0165

RCE

Title: Eye Of Gnome format string vulnerability local RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2003-0165

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Apr 02, 2003

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 4.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.68%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2003-0165: Format string vulnerability in Eye Of Gnome (EOG) allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a command line argument for the file to display.

Impacted Vendors

gnome 1

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/0157.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104887189724146&w=2 http://www.coresecurity.com/common/showdoc.php?idx=312&idxseccion=10 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/363001 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:048 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-128.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7121 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A52 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/0157.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104887189724146&w=2 http://www.coresecurity.com/common/showdoc.php?idx=312&idxseccion=10 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/363001 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:048 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-128.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7121 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A52

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2003-0165 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/22376

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

April 02, 2003 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.