CVE-2002-2175

Phpsquidpass vulnerability

CVSS

4.0

EPSS

5.8%

EPSS pct

92th

Exploited

No known

phpSquidPass before 0.2 uses an incomplete regular expression to find a matching username in its database, which allows remote authenticated attackers to effectively delete other usernames via a short username that matches the end of the targeted username.

Affected vendor

Php

Affected product

Phpsquidpass

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Published

2002-12-31

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

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