CVE-2003-0849

highpriority · track · 44EPSS 0.109 · 96 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

3 exploits · functional

Likely / severe?

10.9% (96th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

10 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Buffer overflow in net.c for cfengine 2.x before 2.0.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain packets with modified length values, which is trusted by the ReceiveTransaction function when using a buffer provided by the BusyWithConnection function.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.8–7.5

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.4

v2.06.8mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-119USLLM-inferred

exploits (3)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-105GNU CFEngine 2.-2.0.3 - Remote Stack Overflowfunctional · exploit_db
EDB-23182GNU CFEngine 2.0.x - CFServD Transaction Packet Buffer Overrun (1)functional · exploit_db
EDB-23183GNU CFEngine 2.0.x - CFServD Transaction Packet Buffer Overrun (2)functional · exploit_db

affected products (10)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
gnu cfengine= 2.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu cfengine= 2.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu cfengine= 2.0.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu cfengine= 2.0.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu cfengine= 2.0.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu cfengine= 2.0.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu cfengine= 2.0.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu cfengine= 2.0.7nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu cfengine= 2.1.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:cfengine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2003-11-17modified 2026-06-16

references (6)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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