CVE-2002-1975 describes a weakness in Sharp Zaurus SL-5000D and SL-5500 PDAs where a fixed "A0" salt is used to encrypt screen-locking passwords stored in the Security.conf file. This flaw makes it significantly easier for local attackers to guess passwords through brute-force attacks. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring low privileges, and leading to high confidentiality impact. While the EPSS score is very low, suggesting minimal current threat, its FAUCET Risk Score is 69/100. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Despite this, the CVE has garnered a notable amount of community discussion with 10 mentions, primarily on GitHub, indicating some level of awareness or historical interest.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sharp:zaurus_sl-5000d_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sharp:zaurus_sl-5500_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub 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 records are not available for this CVE.