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CVE-2002-0642

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-0642 describes a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and MSDE 2000, where insecure permissions on a registry key expose the SQL Server service account information. With a CVSS score of 7.2, this local vulnerability allows an attacker to gain full control over the system (C:C/I:C/A:C) with low attack complexity. Despite its high FAUCET Risk Score of 97/100, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this older vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2000CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:msde:2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2000CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:sql_server:2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.2HIGH

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
49.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.4970 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 3,236 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-034
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1025
cert.org / advisories/CA-2002-22.html
US Government Resource
iss.net / security_center/static/9523.php
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/796313
US Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/5205