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CVE-2002-0798

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-0798 describes a vulnerability in the swinstall utility within HP-UX versions 11.00 and 11.11. This flaw permits local users to access data from files they wouldn't normally be able to read, potentially leading to a denial of service. With a CVSS score of 2.1, it has a low attack complexity and requires local access, primarily impacting confidentiality with no integrity or availability impact noted in the CVSS vector. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there known public exploits in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, despite a relatively high number of community mentions.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
11.00CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:11.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:11.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
41.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0053 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 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/hp/2002-q2/0059.html
PatchVendor Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5623
iss.net / security_center/static/9207.php
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/4886
PatchVendor Advisory