CVE-2002-0525

highpriority · attend · 51EPSS 0.041 · 91 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

4.12% (91st) EPSS

CVSS 10 · high

Is it mine?

7 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Format string vulnerabilities in (1) inews or (2) rnews for INN 2.2.3 and earlier allow local users and remote malicious NNTP servers to gain privileges via format string specifiers in NTTP responses.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

10.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.010highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 10

v2.09highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-134USLLM-inferredCWE-20USLLM-inferred

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-21375ISC INN 2.0/2.1/2.2.x - Multiple Local Format String Vulnerabilitiesfunctional · exploit_db

affected products (7)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
isc inn= 2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:isc:inn:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
isc inn= 2.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:isc:inn:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
isc inn= 2.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:isc:inn:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
isc inn= 2.2.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:isc:inn:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
isc inn= 2.2.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:isc:inn:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
isc inn= 2.2.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:isc:inn:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2002-08-12modified 2026-06-16

references (6)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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