CVE-2002-0525: ISC Inn

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Format string vulnerabilities in (1) inews or (2) rnews for INN 2.2.3 and earlier allow local users and remote malicious NNTP servers to gain privileges via format string specifiers in NTTP responses.

Affected products

• ISC Inn: version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only; version 2.2 only; version 2.2.1 only; version 2.2.2 only; version 2.2.3 only

Published 2002-08-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.