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Vulnerability details: VCID-yjqs-kszf-yka1
Vulnerability ID VCID-yjqs-kszf-yka1
Aliases CVE-2003-0542
Summary By using a regular expression with more than 9 captures a buffer overflow can occur in mod_alias or mod_rewrite. To exploit this an attacker would need to be able to create a carefully crafted configuration file (.htaccess or httpd.conf)
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 2.1
Risk 1.1
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
epss 0.00523 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2003-0542
epss 0.00523 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2003-0542
epss 0.00523 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2003-0542
epss 0.00523 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2003-0542
epss 0.00523 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2003-0542
epss 0.00523 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2003-0542
epss 0.00523 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2003-0542
epss 0.00523 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2003-0542
epss 0.00523 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2003-0542
epss 0.00523 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2003-0542
apache_httpd low https://httpd.apache.org/security/json/CVE-2003-0542.json
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2003-0542.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2003-0542
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2003-0542
1617048 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1617048
CVE-2003-0542 https://httpd.apache.org/security/json/CVE-2003-0542.json
RHSA-2003:320 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003:320
RHSA-2003:360 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003:360
RHSA-2003:405 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003:405
RHSA-2004:015 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004:015
RHSA-2004:139 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004:139
RHSA-2005:816 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005:816
No exploits are available.
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.66838
EPSS Score 0.00523
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T12:36:12.312243+00:00 Apache HTTPD Importer Import https://httpd.apache.org/security/json/CVE-2003-0542.json 38.0.0