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CVE-2002-0598

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-0598 describes a format string vulnerability in Foundstone FScan 1.12 when banner grabbing is enabled. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on the scanning system by injecting format string specifiers into a server banner. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered highly severe, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, potentially leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:foundstone:fscan:1.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.99%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0299 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 51,455 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

online.securityfocus.com / archive/1/268581
Vendor Advisory
foundstone.com / knowledge/fscan112_advisory.html
PatchVendor Advisory
iss.net / security_center/static/8895.php
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/4549
PatchVendor Advisory