CVE-2003-0972

highpriority · track · 41EPSS 0.036 · 89 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

3.55% (89th) EPSS

CVSS 10 · high

Is it mine?

9 products

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Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Integer signedness error in ansi.c for GNU screen 4.0.1 and earlier, and 3.9.15 and earlier, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a large number of ";" (semicolon) characters in escape sequences, which leads to a buffer overflow.

cvss

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

10.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.010highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 10

v2.08.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-120USLLM-inferredCWE-195USLLM-inferred

affected products (9)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
gnu screen= 3.9.10nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:screen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu screen= 3.9.11nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:screen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu screen= 3.9.13nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:screen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu screen= 3.9.15nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:screen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu screen= 3.9.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:screen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu screen= 3.9.8nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:screen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu screen= 3.9.9nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:screen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu screen= 4.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:screen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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 2003-12-15modified 2026-06-16

references (12)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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