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CVE-2002-2251

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-2251 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in the changevalue function of libcgi.h within Marcos Luiz Onisto Lib CGI 0.1. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by supplying an excessively long argument. With a CVSS score of 10.0, it presents a severe risk, enabling complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. While not listed on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists (EDB-22049), though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:marcos_luiz_onisto:lib_cgi:0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
6.58%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-22049 · Nov 27, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0658 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2002-11/0330.html
Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/10715
securityfocus.com / bid/6264
Exploit