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CVE-2002-0655

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-0655 describes a vulnerability in OpenSSL versions 0.9.6d and earlier, and 0.9.7-beta2 and earlier, affecting products like Apple and Oracle. This flaw, stemming from improper handling of ASCII integer representations on 64-bit platforms, could lead to a denial of service and potentially arbitrary code execution. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P), it represents a high-severity issue that can be exploited remotely with low complexity and no authentication. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating it is not currently a high-profile threat.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.9.1cCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:0.9.1c:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.2bCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:0.9.2b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:0.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:0.9.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:0.9.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
8.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0817 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (8)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 6.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.0
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Stronghold 3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Stronghold 4
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2002-0655Critical

security flaw

Jul 30, 2002

References

ftp.caldera.com / pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-033.0.txt
ftp.caldera.com / pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-033.1.txt
ftp.freebsd.org / pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:33.openssl.asc
distro.conectiva.com.br / atualizacoes
cert.org / advisories/CA-2002-23.html
US Government Resource
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/308891
US Government Resource
linux-mandrake.com / en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-046.php
securityfocus.com / bid/5364