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CVE-2002-0575

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-0575 is a buffer overflow vulnerability affecting OpenSSH versions prior to 2.9.9 and 3.x before 3.2.1, specifically when Kerberos/AFS support with KerberosTgtPassing or AFSTokenPassing is enabled. This flaw allows both remote and local authenticated users to escalate their privileges. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity that can lead to partial compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists in ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
4.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-21402 · Apr 19, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0421 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 51,506 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

ftp.caldera.com / pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-022.2.txt
archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2002-04/0298.html
archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2002-04/0394.html
PatchVendor Advisory
marc.info
marc.info
online.securityfocus.com / archive/1/268718
online.securityfocus.com / archive/1/269701
iss.net / security_center/static/8896.php
PatchVendor Advisory
osvdb.org / 781
securityfocus.com / bid/4560
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory