Resource exhaustion in Microsoft Exchange Server
CVE-2003-0714
The Internet Mail Service in Exchange Server 5.5 and Exchange 2000 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) by directly connecting to the SMTP service and sending a certain extended verb request, possibly triggering a buffer overflow in Exchange 2000.
Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.776 (99.6th percentile), scored .
High probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — patch promptly. 100th percentile — 99.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.776 · newest: 0.776 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Exchange Server — versions 5.5, 2000
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-27.html (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/422156 (US Government Resource, Patch, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2003/ms03-046 (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/8838 (Exploit, Patch, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2003-0714?
- CVE-2003-0714 is a vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. Published 2003-11-17.
- Is CVE-2003-0714 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.