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CVE-2002-1491
The Cisco VPN 5000 Client for MacOS before 5.2.2 records the most recently used login password in plaintext when saving "Default…
Medium5.0EPSS 1.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
The Cisco VPN 5000 Client for MacOS before 5.2.2 records the most recently used login password in plaintext when saving "Default Connection" settings, which could allow local users to gain privileges.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 19 months later
· 19 months 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 | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 33% 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: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- 20020918 Cisco VPN 5000 Client Multiple Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred
- 5736 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- cisco-vpn5000-defaultconnection-password(10129) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 7041 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_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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