CVE-2003-1287: Sambar Server

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Sambar Server before 6.0 beta 3 allows attackers with physical access to execute arbitrary code via a request with an MS-DOS device name such as com1.pl, con.pl, or aux.pl, which causes Perl to read the code from the associated device.

Affected products

• Sambar Sambar Server: version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.2 only; version 5.3 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2003-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.