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CVE-2002-1230

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1230 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the NetDDE Agent on Windows NT 4.0, 2000, and XP. A local attacker can execute arbitrary code as LocalSystem by sending specific WM_COPYDATA and WM_TIMER messages, leveraging a "shatter" style attack. The CVSS score is 4.6 (medium severity), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, leading to potential compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not on the CISA KEV catalog, multiple exploit proofs-of-concept are publicly available on ExploitDB, and the CVE has garnered significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000_terminal_services:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.6MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-21923 · Oct 9, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0232 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 3,049 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

getad.chat.ru
docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-071
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A681
ciac.org / ciac/bulletins/n-027.shtml
iss.net / security_center/static/10343.php
Vendor Advisory
packetstormsecurity.nl / filedesc/GetAd.c.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/5927