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CVE-2002-2256

Status: ModifiedMedium (5)—
Severity5Medium · CVSS 2.0
Exploitation probability1.50 %higher than 74% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found

Directory traversal vulnerability in pWins Webserver 0.2.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via Unicode characters.

CVSS

Base score
5
Version
2.0
Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
1.50 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
74
Score date
10/24/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Pwins — Pwins

CWEs

References

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