Vulnerability Report

CVE-2003-0548

Title: GDM XDMCP daemon crash via expired host

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2003-0548.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Aug 27, 2003

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.47%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2003-0548: The X Display Manager Control Protocol (XDMCP) support for GDM before 2.4.1.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) when a chosen host expires, a different issue than CVE-2003-0549.

Impacted Vendors

gnome 1

redhat 1

Reference Links

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000729 http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2003-August/msg00045.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-258.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-259.html https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A113 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000729 http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2003-August/msg00045.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-258.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-259.html https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A113

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2003-0548 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 27, 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:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.