CVE-2003-0173

HIGH 7.2CVE-2003-0173 · Published 05/05/2003 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2003-0173 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.2) vulnerability affecting xfsdump (xfsdump).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.49%, higher than 42.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
xfsdump xfsdump	`= 2.0.0= 2.0.1= 2.0.2= 2.0.3= 2.0.4= 2.0.5`	No fix yet

xfsdq in xfsdump does not create quota information files securely, which allows local users to gain root privileges.

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