THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2002-1183
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2002-1183

Windows 98 vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
19.3%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
Microsoft Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0 do not properly verify the Basic Constraints of digital certificates, allowing remote attackers to execute code, aka "New Variant of Certificate Validation Flaw Could Enable Identity Spoofing" (CAN-2002-0862).
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Windows 98
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2002-12-11

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 19.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2002-1183

  • Confirm whether Microsoft Windows 98 is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2002-1183.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

How ThreatPort helps with CVE-2002-1183

ThreatPort's external attack surface scanner checks your internet-facing assets — agentlessly, from the outside in — for the exposed services and versions that CVE-2002-1183 affects, then prioritises the finding by real risk using CISA KEV and FIRST.org EPSS.

Run a free external exposure scan

Are you exposed to CVE-2002-1183?

Run an instant, non-intrusive external scan to check your attack surface for CVE-2002-1183.

Start free scan

No credit card. Agentless.

Related vulnerabilities

HIGH
CVE-2006-4695
Office Web Components vulnerability
HIGH
CVE-2006-5266
Dynamics Gp vulnerability
HIGH
CVE-2006-5574
Office vulnerability