CVE-2002-0539

Exp

Demarc PureSecure 1.05 allows remote attackers to gain administrative privileges via a SQL injection attack in a session ID that is stored in the s_key cookie.

Published: 2002-07-03 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2002-0539 is rated High Exploit Risk (79.5/100): CVSS Critical severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.70%). Core evidence: 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2002-0539

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
21384 exploit_db edb 2002-04-15 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2002-0539

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-03-30 0.54% 0.70% +0.16%
2 2025-03-29 0.70% 0.54% -0.16%
3 2025-03-17 0.70%

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2002-0539

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
10.0 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
10.0 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2002-0539

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2002-0539

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
demarc_security puresecure 1.0.5_for_unix cpe:2.3:a:demarc_security:puresecure:1.0.5_for_unix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
demarc_security puresecure 1.0.5_for_windows cpe:2.3:a:demarc_security:puresecure:1.0.5_for_windows:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2002-0539

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