What is CVE-2002-1915?

CVE-2002-1915 is a medium-severity vulnerability in FreeBSD, classified under Improper Locking. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2002-12-31.

How severe is CVE-2002-1915?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in FreeBSD

CVE-2002-1915

tip on multiple BSD-based operating systems allows local users to cause a denial of service (execution prevention) by using flock() to lock the /var/log/acculog file.

Published 2002-12-31 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (17.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 17th percentile — 17.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

FreeBSD — versions 3.5, 3.5.1, 4.0
NetBSD — versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2
OpenBSD — versions 2.0, 2.1, 2.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-667 — Improper Locking

References

www.iss.net/security_center/static/9633.php (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/283033 (mailing-list, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, Broken Link)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/5265 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2002-1915?: CVE-2002-1915 is a medium-severity vulnerability in FreeBSD, classified under Improper Locking. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2002-12-31.
How severe is CVE-2002-1915?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.