Vulnerability Report

CVE-2003-0308

Title: Debian Sendmail temporary files local privilege escalation

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2003-0308.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date May 15, 2003
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.40%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2003-0308: The Sendmail 8.12.3 package in Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 does not securely create temporary files, which could allow local users to gain additional privileges via (1) expn, (2) checksendmail, or (3) doublebounce.pl.

Impacted Vendors

E
eric_allman 1
M
metainfo 1
S
sendmail 1
R
redhat 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.debian.org/496408 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/sendmail-base http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-305 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 http://bugs.debian.org/496408 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/sendmail-base http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-305 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.2
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2003-0308 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.