CyberRota Analysis
This is a critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8. Its EPSS score suggests a 21.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It may be remotely exploitable.
CVE
CVE-2003-0899
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
21.68%
Original NVD Description
Buffer overflow in defang in libhttpd.c for thttpd 2.21 to 2.23b1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via requests that contain '<' or '>' characters, which trigger the overflow when the characters are expanded to "<" and ">" sequences.