VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2003-0525
CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability7.71%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2003-08-27
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
The getCanonicalPath function in Windows NT 4.0 may free memory that it does not own and cause heap corruption, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via requests that cause a long file name to be passed to getCanonicalPath, as demonstrated on the IBM JVM using a long string to the java.io.getCanonicalPath Java method.