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CVE-2002-2256

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-2256 describes a directory traversal vulnerability in pWins Webserver versions 0.2.5 and earlier, allowing remote attackers to read arbitrary files using Unicode characters. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and low attack complexity, potentially leading to information disclosure. While there is no known active exploitation, nor publicly available exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the CVE has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.2.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pwins:pwins:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0150 is in the 54th 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

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2002-11/0347.html
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/10724
securityfocus.com / bid/6271