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CVE-2002-1838

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1838 describes a symlink attack vulnerability in Charities.cron versions 1.0.2 through 1.6.0, allowing local users to write to arbitrary files. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), this vulnerability has a moderate severity, indicating low attack complexity and potential for partial integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there known public exploits in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Despite its age and lack of active exploitation, the CVE has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, suggesting continued awareness or interest.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:steve_sachs:charities.cron:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:steve_sachs:charities.cron:1.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:steve_sachs:charities.cron:1.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:steve_sachs:charities.cron:1.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.83%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
53.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0083 is in the 34th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

securityfocus.com / bid/4869
Patch
stevesachs.com / charities.cron_CHANGELOG