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high 7.5

CVE-2002-1605 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in HP Tru64 UNIX 5.1a, 5.1, 5.0a, 4.0g, and 4.0f allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long _XKB_CHARSET environ…

published 2002-09-02 24 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2002-1586

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
13.3%
EPSS 13.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in HP Tru64 UNIX 5.1a, 5.1, 5.0a, 4.0g, and 4.0f allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long _XKB_CHARSET environment variable to (1) dxpause, (2) dxconsole, or (3) dtsession.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-21774)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

13.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-21774 HP Tru64 4.0/5.0/5.1 - _XKB_CHARSET Local Buffer Overflow local, 2002-07-10
  • blacksheepnetworks.com http://www.blacksheepnetworks.com/security/hack/tru64/TRU64_xkb.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

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