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CVE-2002-1589

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1589 is an unknown vulnerability affecting Solaris 8 and SunOS that can lead to a denial of service (system panic) for local users. This occurs when the 0x02 bit (TEST, KMF_DEADBEEF, or deadbeef) is set in the kmem_flags kernel parameter. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and only a partial impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known exploit code available in common databases like Metasploit or ExploitDB, and it has received no community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:8.0:*:x86:*:*:*:*:*
5.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
25.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0033 is in the 15th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 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, 0.0 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/10496
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
Patch
securityfocus.com / bid/6080