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CVE-2002-1559

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1559 describes a directory traversal vulnerability in Research Systems Inc.'s ion-p.exe, part of ION Script, allowing remote attackers to read arbitrary files. This flaw, rated with a CVSS score of 5.0, is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity and no authentication, potentially leading to unauthorized information disclosure. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the CISA KEV catalog, public exploit code exists, and it has a high FAUCET Risk Score of 78/100, despite minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:research_systems_inc.:ion_script:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
9.22%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-21979 · Nov 1, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0922 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 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, 0.0 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/bugtraq/2002-10/0447.html
Exploit
archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2002-10/0448.html
ExploitVendor Advisory
iss.net / security_center/static/10518.php
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/6091
ExploitVendor Advisory