01 Record
CVE-2002-0525
Format string vulnerabilities in (1) inews or (2) rnews for INN 2.2.3 and earlier allow local users and remote malicious NNTP servers to gain privileges via format string specifiers in NTTP responses.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Format string vulnerabilities in (1) inews or (2) rnews for INN 2.2.3 and earlier allow local users and remote malicious NNTP servers to gain privileges via format string specifiers in NTTP responses.
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
- 4.12% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 90.4% 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
- 2002-06-11 04:00Z24 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-08 02:49Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2002-06-07
- 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
- 03d0534ec1f27a8205b38a9244c05899de48a8e7f6f0e156404a542e998a003d
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com4501http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4501
- www.iss.netinn-rnews-inews-format-string(8834)http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8834.php
- archives.neohapsis.com20020411 Inn (Inter Net News) security problemshttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-04/0140.html