CVE-2003-0939: SAP DB

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

eo420_GetStringFromVarPart in veo420.c for SAP database server (SAP DB) 7.4.03.27 and earlier may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a connect packet with a 256 byte segment to the niserver (aka serv.exe) process on TCP port 7269, which prevents the server from NULL terminating the string and leads to a buffer overflow.

Affected products

• SAP SAP DB: up to and including 7.4.03.27

Published 2003-12-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.