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CVE-2002-2105

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-2105 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Microsoft Windows XP, where a local user can prevent the system from booting by corrupting the explorer.exe.manifest file. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a low-complexity local attack with no confidentiality or integrity impact, but leading to system unavailability. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, and the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*:*:home:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*:gold:professional:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.15%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-21240 · Jan 21, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0314 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/8000
securityfocus.com / bid/3942
supernature-forum.de / vbb/printthread.php