CVE-2002-2122 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Pointsec before 1.2 for PalmOS stores a user's PIN number in memory in plaintext, which allows a local attacker who steals an unlocked Palm to retrieve the PIN by dumping memory.

Published: 2005-08-05

Score: 2.1 Low

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:pointsec_mobile_technologies:pointsec:1.0:*:palm_os:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2002-2101	Pointsec before 1.2 for PalmOS stores a user's PIN number in memory in plaintext, which allows a local attacker who steals an unlocked Palm to retrieve the PIN by dumping memory.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00144.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-05/0035.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9021.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4681

History

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Subscriptions

Pointsec Mobile Technologies Pointsec

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-08-05T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T21:02:29.582Z

Reserved: 2005-08-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2002-2122

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2002-12-31T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2002-2122

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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