Vulnerability in Bill Abt Next Generation Posix Threading

CVE-2002-2038

Next Generation POSIX Threading (NGPT) 1.9.0 uses a filesystem-based shared memory entry, which allows local users to cause a denial of service or in threaded processes or spoof files via unknown methods.

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 3.6 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (18.9th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 19th percentile — 18.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2002-2038: held from 0.003 to 0.003.

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

Affected products

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