CVE-2002-0529 — HP Photosmart printer driver for Mac OS X installs the hp_imaging_connectivity program and the hp_imaging_connectivity.app directory with world-writable permissions, which allows local users to gain privileges of other Photosmart users by replacing hp_imaging_connectivity with a Trojan horse

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MEDIUM

HP Photosmart printer driver for Mac OS X installs the hp_imaging_connectivity program and the hp_imaging_connectivity.app directory with world-writable permissions, which allows local users to gain privileges of other Photosmart users by replacing hp_imaging_connectivity with a Trojan horse

Published Jun 11, 2002

6.2

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.44%

Description

HP Photosmart printer driver for Mac OS X installs the hp_imaging_connectivity program and the hp_imaging_connectivity.app directory with world-writable permissions, which allows local users to gain privileges of other Photosmart users by replacing hp_imaging_connectivity with a Trojan horse.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.44% 0.00441

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00441

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.44% (0.00441)	35.96th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.44% (0.00441)	34.89th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.04% (0.00038)	8.15th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00890)	30.33th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	28.64th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	26.62th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	12.04th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-04/0169.html
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8856.php
vdb-entryx_refsource_XFVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4518
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-04/0169.html		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8856.php		vdb-entryx_refsource_XFVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4518		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jun 11, 2002

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved Jun 7, 2002

Link CVE-2002-0529

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2002-0529

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2002-0529