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CVE-2002-1374

45
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1374 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in MySQL versions 3.x before 3.23.54 and 4.x before 4.0.6, affecting Oracle and Symantec Veritas products. Remote attackers can exploit a flaw in the COM_CHANGE_USER command, which incorrectly compares only the first character of a provided password against the real password, enabling brute-force attacks. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity with a network attack vector, low attack complexity, and potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. While not in the KEV catalog or Hot List, an ExploitDB entry exists, and it has garnered significant community discussion, despite no known active exploitation or Metasploit/Nuclei modules.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.22.26CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:3.22.26:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.22.27CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:3.22.27:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.22.28CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:3.22.28:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.22.29CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:3.22.29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.22.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:3.22.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
20.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-22084 · Dec 16, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2045 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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 (7)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.0
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 8.0
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2002-1374Important

security flaw

Dec 12, 2002

References

distro.conectiva.com.br / atualizacoes
marc.info
marc.info
marc.info
security.e-matters.de / advisories/042002.html
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/10847
debian.org / security/2002/dsa-212
linuxsecurity.com / advisories/engarde_advisory-2660.html
PatchVendor Advisory
mandrakesoft.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2003_003_mysql.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2002-288.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2002-289.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2003-166.html
securityfocus.com / advisories/5269
securityfocus.com / bid/6373
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
trustix.net / errata/misc/2002/TSL-2002-0086-mysql.asc.txt