{"cve":"CVE-2002-0766","nvd":{"published":"2002-08-12T04:00:00.000","modified":"2026-06-16T21:58:05.630","status":"Modified","description":"OpenBSD 2.9 through 3.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) and gain root privileges by filling the kernel's file descriptor table and closing file descriptors 0, 1, or 2 before executing a privileged process, which is not properly handled when OpenBSD fails to open an alternate descriptor.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/271702","http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9048.php","http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/314963","http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html#fdalloc2","http://www.osvdb.org/5114"],"products":["openbsd:openbsd"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:34:38.930894741+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2002-0766","score":0.00589,"percentile":0.48167,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}