CVE-2002-1204: Netscape Communicator 4.x allows attackers to use a link to steal a user's preferences, including potentially sensitive information such as…
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 20/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 1.3% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 71.2% of all records.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
Netscape Communicator 4.x allows attackers to use a link to steal a user's preferences, including potentially sensitive information such as URL history, e-mail address, and possibly the e-mail password, by redefining the user_pref() function and accessing the prefs.js file, which is stored in a directory with a predictable name.
- Published
- Nov 29, 2002
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 1.3% · 71th percentile
- CWE
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Action score
20
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 20 / 40 · 5.0 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 1.3%
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| netscape | communicator | cpe:2.3:a:netscape:communicator |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- netscape communicator4.6
- netscape communicator4.61
- netscape communicator4.7
- netscape communicator4.72
- netscape communicator4.73
- netscape communicator4.74
- netscape communicator4.75
- netscape communicator4.76
- netscape communicator4.77
- netscape communicator4.78
Same product
netscape: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2002-2248Buffer overflow in the sun.awt.windows.WDefaultFontCharset Java class implementation in Netscape 4.0 allows remote attackers to execute…42Plan
- CVE-2000-0711Netscape Communicator does not properly prevent a ServerSocket object from being created by untrusted entities, which allows remote…40Plan
- CVE-2001-0596Netscape Communicator before 4.77 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Javascript via a GIF image whose comment contains the…33Monitor
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2000-1187Jan 9, 2001 · Buffer overflow in the HTML parser for Netscape 4.75 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long password…31Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2001-0921Nov 21, 2001 · Netscape 4.79 and earlier for MacOS allows an attacker with access to the browser to obtain passwords from form fields by printing the…8Monitor
- Later →CVE-2002-1766Dec 31, 2002 · Buffer overflow in Composer in Netscape 4.77 allows local users to overwrite process memory and execute arbitrary code via a font tag with…18Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
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Research context
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Timeline
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No dated events beyond publication.
Not on record for this CVE: EPSS history · patch commit or PR link · researcher credit · variant or chain candidate · public bounty program.
Technical details
Attack conditions
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- P · data can be read
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- none
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Confidentiality impact
- P
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- None
Weakness class (CWE)
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CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
nvd-primary
Attack context
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Change log (0)
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References
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