Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2002-1251

32
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1251 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in log2mail versions prior to 0.2.5.1, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code through a crafted, excessively long log message. This vulnerability carries a maximum CVSS score of 10.0, indicating a severe risk with network-based exploitation requiring low attack complexity and no authentication, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, with 10 mentions, suggesting awareness and potential for future exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.2.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:log2mail:log2mail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
6.24%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0624 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 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-186
PatchVendor Advisory
iss.net / security_center/static/10527.php
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/6089