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CVE-2002-0253

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-0253 describes an information disclosure vulnerability in PHP, specifically when the "display_errors" setting is enabled. Remote attackers can exploit this by adding a trailing slash to a request for a directly accessible PHP program, causing an include directive to fail and revealing the physical path of an include file in the resulting error message. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a partial confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available, with minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.0.1:patch2:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
5.23%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0523 is in the 88th 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

marc.info
iss.net / security_center/static/8122.php
securityfocus.com / bid/4063