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CVE-2002-0909
Multiple buffer overflows in mnews 1.22 and earlier allow (1) a remote NNTP server to execute arbitrary code via long responses, or local…
High7.5EPSS 2.8%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Multiple buffer overflows in mnews 1.22 and earlier allow (1) a remote NNTP server to execute arbitrary code via long responses, or local users can gain privileges via long command line arguments (2) -f, (3) -n, (4) -D, (5) -M, or (6) -P, or via long environment variables (7) JNAMES or (8) MAILSERVER.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 15 days later
· 15 days later
Published
- 22 years later
· 22 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.8% · top 14% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- 20020531 Mnews 1.22 PoC exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 4900 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 4899 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- mnews-multiple-local-bo(9227) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20020531 SRT Security Advisory (SRT2002-04-31-1159): Mnews (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20020531 Mnews 1.22 PoC exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_VULN-DEVx_transferred
- mnews-nntp-response-bo(9226) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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