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CVE-2002-0721

61
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-0721 describes a critical vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and 2000, stemming from weak permissions on extended stored procedures linked to helper functions. This flaw allows unprivileged local users, and potentially remote attackers, to execute these stored procedures with administrator privileges, specifically via xp_execresultset, xp_printstatements, or xp_displayparamstmt. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability is highly severe, enabling complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no authentication required. While not listed in CISA KEV and showing no active exploitation or significant community discussion, an exploit for privilege escalation in SQL 2000/7.0 agent jobs is available on ExploitDB.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:data_engine:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2000CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:data_engine:2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:sql_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:sql_server:7.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:sql_server:7.0:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
46.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-21718 · Aug 15, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.4631 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/ntbugtraq/2002-q3/0087.html
marc.info
marc.info
docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-043
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/399531
US Government Resource
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/818939
US Government Resource
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/939675
US Government Resource
ngssoftware.com / advisories/mssql-esppu.txt