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CVE-2002-1418

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1418 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the interpreter of Novell NetBasic Scripting Server for Netware 5.1/6 and Novell Small Business Suite 5.1/6. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (ABEND) by supplying an excessively long module name. Rated with a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to system unavailability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this older CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:novell:small_business_suite:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:novell:small_business_suite:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:novell:netware:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:novell:netware:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.67%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0267 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2002-08/0199.html
PatchVendor Advisory
support.novell.com / servlet/tidfinder/2963297
iss.net / security_center/static/9911.php
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/5524
PatchVendor Advisory