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CVE-2002-0875

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-0875 describes a vulnerability in FAM versions 2.6.8, 2.6.6, and potentially others, affecting Debian and SGI IRIX systems. This flaw allows unprivileged users to discover the names of files restricted to the root group. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), indicating local access is required for a partial confidentiality impact. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, an exploit for SGI IRIX 6.5.x exists on ExploitDB, and the CVE has garnered significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.6.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sgi:fam:2.6.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.6.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sgi:fam:2.6.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.5.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:6.5.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.5.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:6.5.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.5.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:6.5.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.96%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
58.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-21720 · Aug 16, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0096 is in the 91st 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2002-0875Low

security flaw

Jan 3, 2002

References

ftp.freebsd.org / pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SN-02:05.asc
patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20000301-03-I
debian.org / security/2002/dsa-154
PatchVendor Advisory
iss.net / security_center/static/9880.php
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-005.html
securityfocus.com / bid/5487