01 Record
CVE-2002-0321
Yahoo! Messenger 5.0 allows remote attackers to spoof other users by modifying the username and using the spoofed username for social engineering or denial of service (flooding) attacks.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Yahoo! Messenger 5.0 allows remote attackers to spoof other users by modifying the username and using the spoofed username for social engineering or denial of service (flooding) attacks.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.28% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 88.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2002-05-03 04:00Z24 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-08 02:42Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2002-05-01
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 9ec6336ccc4b7430c91f1665fbd291d37afdf5e82b21cbee87d19a8a1d0d4dae
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.iss.netyahoo-messenger-username-spoof(8267)http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8267.php
- www.cert.orgCA-2002-16http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-16.html
- marc.info20020221 Remote crashes in Yahoo messengerhttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101439616623230&w=2
- www.kb.cert.orgVU#952875http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952875
- www.securityfocus.com4164http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4164