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CVE-2002-0969
Buffer overflow in MySQL daemon (mysqld) before 3.23.50, and 4.0 beta before 4.02, on the Win32 platform, allows local users to execute…
High7.8EPSS 1.4%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Buffer overflow in MySQL daemon (mysqld) before 3.23.50, and 4.0 beta before 4.02, on the Win32 platform, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long "datadir" parameter in the my.ini initialization file, whose permissions on Windows allow Full Control to the Everyone group.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Published
- 20 years later
· 20 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 | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 27% 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 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- http://www.westpoint.ltd.uk/advisories/wp-02-0003.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_News.html#News-3.23.x (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20021002 wp-02-0003: MySQL Locally Exploitable Buffer Overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCHx_transferred
- 20021002 wp-02-0003: MySQL Locally Exploitable Buffer Overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- mysql-myini-datadir-bo(10243) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 5853 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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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