CVE-2002-0440 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Trend Micro InterScan VirusWall HTTP proxy 3.6 with the "Skip scanning if Content-length equals 0" option enabled allows malicious web servers to bypass content scanning via a Content-length header set to 0, which is often ignored by HTTP clients.

Published: 2002-06-11

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: 2.5% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:trend_micro:interscan_viruswall:3.6:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:trend_micro:interscan_viruswall:3.51:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2002-0437	Trend Micro InterScan VirusWall HTTP proxy 3.6 with the "Skip scanning if Content-length equals 0" option enabled allows malicious web servers to bypass content scanning via a Content-length header set to 0, which is often ignored by HTTP clients.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.02482.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2002/Mar/0162.html
http://www.inside-security.de/vwall_cl0.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8425.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4265

History

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Subscriptions

Trend Micro Interscan Viruswall

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2002-06-11T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T02:49:28.462Z

Reserved: 2002-06-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2002-0440

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2002-07-26T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2002-0440

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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