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CVE-2002-1227

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1227 describes a vulnerability in PAM 0.76 where disabled user accounts are treated as having empty passwords, enabling local and remote attackers to gain unauthorized privileges. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity due to its network-based attack vector, low complexity, and potential for full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.76CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pam:pam:0.76:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0243 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

debian.org / security/2002/dsa-177
PatchVendor Advisory
iss.net / security_center/static/10405.php
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/5994