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CVE-2002-1771

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1771 describes a vulnerability in Matt Wright FormMail versions 1.9 and earlier, allowing remote attackers to inject newline characters followed by CC:, BCC:, or additional TO: fields into email and realname CGI variables. This enables the sending of spam or anonymous email. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity) with an attack vector of network, low attack complexity, and a partial impact on integrity, but no impact on confidentiality or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:matt_wright:formmail:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:matt_wright:formmail:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:matt_wright:formmail:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:matt_wright:formmail:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:matt_wright:formmail:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
68.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0135 is in the 49th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 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/2002-01/0307.html
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/8013
scriptarchive.com / readme/formmail.html
securityfocus.com / bid/3955
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