Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-1766

RCE

Title: Netscape Composer long font tag face attribute buffer overflow

RCE

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2002-1766

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Dec 31, 2002

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Available

Score 4.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.45%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2002-1766: Buffer overflow in Composer in Netscape 4.77 allows local users to overwrite process memory and execute arbitrary code via a font tag with a long face attribute.

Impacted Vendors

netscape 1

Reference Links

http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/276876 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5010 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/9355 http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/276876 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5010 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/9355

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2002-1766 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/21544

View Code

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 31, 2002 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.