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CVE-2002-1502

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1502 describes a symbolic link vulnerability in xbreaky versions prior to 0.5.5, affecting the dave_brul xbreaky product. A local attacker can exploit this flaw by creating a symlink from their .breakyhighscores file to an arbitrary target file, allowing them to overwrite that file. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), indicating local access, low attack complexity, and only a potential impact on integrity (data overwrite). There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not a widely recognized or exploited threat.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dave_brul:xbreaky:0.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dave_brul:xbreaky:0.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
35.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0043 is in the 65th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2002-09/0131.html
ExploitVendor Advisory
iss.net / security_center/static/10078.php
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/5700
PatchVendor Advisory
xbreaky.sourceforge.net
Vendor Advisory