CVE-2003-0948

HIGH 7.2CVE-2003-0948 · Published 15/12/2003 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2003-0948 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.2) vulnerability affecting wireless tools (wireless tools).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.1%, higher than 66.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
wireless tools wireless_tools	`= 19= 20= 21= 22= 23= 24= 25= 26`	No fix yet

Buffer overflow in iwconfig allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long HOME environment variable.

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