CVE-2002-1139 — The Compressed Folders feature in Microsoft Windows 98 with Plus! Pack, Windows Me, and Windows XP does not properly check the destination folder during the decompression of ZIP files, which allows attackers to place an executable file in a known location on a user's system, aka "Incorrect Target Path for Zipped File Decompression."

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The Compressed Folders feature in Microsoft Windows 98 with Plus! Pack, Windows Me, and Windows XP does not properly check the destination folder during the decompression of ZIP files, which allows attackers to place an executable file in a known location on a user's system, aka "Incorrect Target Path for Zipped File Decompression."

Published Sep 1, 2004

5.0

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 4.23%

Description

The Compressed Folders feature in Microsoft Windows 98 with Plus! Pack, Windows Me, and Windows XP does not properly check the destination folder during the decompression of ZIP files, which allows attackers to place an executable file in a known location on a user's system, aka "Incorrect Target Path for Zipped File Decompression."

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

4.23% 0.04231

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

EPSS probability 0.04231

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 (13 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	4.23% (0.04231)	90.70th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	4.23% (0.04231)	89.70th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 30, 2025	19.67% (0.19669)	94.95th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 29, 2025	25.62% (0.25625)	93.93th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 19, 2025	19.67% (0.19669)	94.72th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	16.68% (0.16681)	94.41th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.88% (0.00880)	83.20th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 8, 2024	0.88% (0.00880)	82.41th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Aug 9, 2023	0.88% (0.00880)	80.41th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.90% (0.00899)	80.24th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	4.70% (0.04700)	89.19th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	4.70% (0.04700)	88.10th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	4.70% (0.04700)	74.46th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10252.php
vdb-entryx_refsource_XFVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5876
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-054
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MS

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10252.php		vdb-entryx_refsource_XFVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5876		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-054		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MS

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Sep 1, 2004

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved Sep 23, 2002

Link CVE-2002-1139

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2002-1139

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2002-1139