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CVE-2002-2361

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The installer in Yahoo! Messenger 4.0, 5.0 and 5.5 does not verify package signatures which could allow remote attackers to install trojan programs via DNS spoofing.

Affected products

• yahoo Messenger: 4.0, 5.0, 5.5

References

• http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/bugtraq/2002/08/msg00384.html
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9984.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5579
• http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/bugtraq/2002/08/msg00384.html
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9984.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5579

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