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CVE-2002-0860

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-0860 describes a vulnerability in the LoadText method of the Microsoft Office Web Components (OWC) 2000 and 2002 spreadsheet component. This flaw allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files on a user's system by crafting a malicious URL that redirects to the target file, affecting users of Internet Explorer. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, but only impacting confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not currently a high-profile threat.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2000CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_web_components:2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2002CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_web_components:2002:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2000CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:project:2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2002CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:project:2002:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
18.77%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1877 is in the 97th 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
docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-044
iss.net / security_center/static/8778.php
PatchVendor Advisory
osvdb.org / 3007
securityfocus.com / bid/4453