CVE-2002-0941 describes a passphrase leakage vulnerability in the ConsoleCallBack class of nCipher products, specifically nforce and nshield, when running under JRE 1.4.0 or 1.4.0_01. This flaw allows an attacker to potentially gain privileges if a user aborts an application prompting for a passphrase. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.6, indicating a low attack complexity and local access vector, with potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or KEV entry, though it has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ncipher:nforce:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:h:ncipher:nshield:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.