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CVE-2002-1193

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1193 describes a symlink attack vulnerability in tkmail versions prior to 4.0beta9-8.1, allowing local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), indicating local access and low attack complexity are required for a partial impact on integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or KEV listing, though it has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0_beta1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tkmail:tkmail:4.0_beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0_beta4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tkmail:tkmail:4.0_beta4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0_beta6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tkmail:tkmail:4.0_beta6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0_beta8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tkmail:tkmail:4.0_beta8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0_beta9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tkmail:tkmail:4.0_beta9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
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
0.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
26.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0034 is in the 20th 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 (1)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

debian.org / security/2002/dsa-172
PatchVendor Advisory
iss.net / security_center/static/10307.php
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/5911