{"id":"CVE-2002-0994","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2002-0994","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:30:05.661Z","title":"SunPCi II VNC uses a weak authentication scheme, which allows remote attackers to obtain the VNC password by sniffing the random byte challenge, which is used as the key for encrypted communications.","description":"SunPCi II VNC uses a weak authentication scheme, which allows remote attackers to obtain the VNC password by sniffing the random byte challenge, which is used as the key for encrypted communications.","published":"2002-10-04T04:00:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T21:58:32.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":[],"affected":["sun/sun pci ii driver"],"epss":{"score":0.02891,"percentile":0.86807,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":1,"verified":true,"firstPublished":"2002-07-03","source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[{"edbId":21592,"kind":"exploit","title":"Sun SunPCi II VNC Software 2.3 - Password Disclosure","url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/21592","sourceUrl":"https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/unix/local/21592.c","file":"exploits/unix/local/21592.c","published":"2002-07-03","added":"2002-07-03","updated":"2012-09-29","author":"Richard van den Berg","type":"local","platform":"unix","port":null,"verified":true,"codes":["CVE-2002-0994","OSVDB-6279"],"tags":null,"aliases":null,"applicationUrl":null,"screenshotUrl":null,"referenceUrl":"https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5146/info"}]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified) and the impact is high, while EPSS rates exploitation at 2.9%. Anyone can run this; patch or mitigate before the next change window and check exposed instances for signs of use."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q3/0003.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9476.php","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5146","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q3/0003.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9476.php","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5146","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-0994","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}