CVE-2002-0236

HIGH 7.5CVE-2002-0236 · Published 29/05/2002 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2002-0236 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting vitalanalysis (lucent), vitalevent (lucent), vitalhelp (lucent).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 7.4%, higher than 94.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
vitalanalysis lucent	`= 8.0= 8.1= 8.2`	No fix yet
vitalevent lucent	`= 8.0= 8.1= 8.2`	No fix yet
vitalhelp lucent	`= 8.0= 8.1= 8.2`	No fix yet
vitalnet lucent	`= 8.0= 8.1= 8.2`	No fix yet
vitalsuite lucent	`= 8.0= 8.1= 8.2`	No fix yet

Description

Lucent VitalSuite 8.0 through 8.2, including VitalNet, VitalEvent, and VitalHelp/VitalAnalysis, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a direct HTTP request to the VsSetCookie.exe program, which returns a valid cookie for the desired user.

References

marc.info
iss.net/security_center/static/7936.php · Patch
securityfocus.com/bid/3784 · Exploit

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