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CVE-2002-1226

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1226 describes unknown vulnerabilities in Heimdal versions prior to 0.5, potentially affecting the kadmind and kdc servers. This vulnerability carries a critical CVSS score of 10.0, indicating that it is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity and could lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, including root access. Despite its age and high severity, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or KEV listing. However, it has garnered significant community discussion, with 11 mentions across platforms like Reddit and GitHub.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.3eCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kth:heimdal:0.3e:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.4aCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kth:heimdal:0.4a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.4bCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kth:heimdal:0.4b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.4cCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kth:heimdal:0.4c:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.4dCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kth:heimdal:0.4d:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0239 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 51,455 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

marc.info
marc.info
debian.org / security/2002/dsa-178
PatchVendor Advisory