CVE-2002-1153 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

IBM Websphere 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an HTTP request with long HTTP headers, such as "Host".

Published: 2004-09-01

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 2.6% 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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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:4.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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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-2002-1140	IBM Websphere 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an HTTP request with long HTTP headers, such as "Host".

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0258.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/websphere/appserv/support/fixes/pq62144/readme.txt
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103244572803950&w=2
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10140.php
http://www.osvdb.org/2092
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5749

History

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Subscriptions

Ibm Websphere Application Server

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2004-09-01T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T03:12:17.136Z

Reserved: 2002-09-24T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2002-1153

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2002-10-11T04:00:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2002-1153

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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