CVE-2002-0818 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

wwwoffled in World Wide Web Offline Explorer (WWWOFFLE) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a negative Content-Length value.

Published: 2003-04-02

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: 3.2% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wwwoffle:wwwoffle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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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-2002-0810	wwwoffled in World Wide Web Offline Explorer (WWWOFFLE) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a negative Content-Length value.

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 0.03238.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-048.0.txt
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-07/0194.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102821890317683&w=2
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-144
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9619.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5260

History

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Subscriptions

Wwwoffle Wwwoffle

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2003-04-02T05:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T03:03:49.092Z

Reserved: 2002-08-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2002-0818

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2002-08-12T04:00:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2002-0818

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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