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CVE-2002-1515

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1515 describes a directory traversal vulnerability in CoolForum 0.5 beta's avatar.php script, allowing remote attackers to read arbitrary files. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.0) requires no authentication and has low attack complexity, potentially leading to information disclosure. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or KEV listing, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.5_betaCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:coolforum:coolforum:0.5_beta:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0228 is in the 71st percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

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/vulnwatch/2002-q4/0001.html
online.securityfocus.com / archive/1/295358
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
coolforum.net / index.php
iss.net / security_center/static/10237.php
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/5973
PatchVendor Advisory