CVE-2002-1169 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

IBM Web Traffic Express Caching Proxy Server 3.6 and 4.x before 4.0.1.26 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an HTTP request to helpout.exe with a missing HTTP version number, which causes ibmproxy.exe to crash.

Published: 2004-09-01

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 4.3% 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:ibm:websphere_caching_proxy_server:3.6:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_caching_proxy_server:4.0:::::::*

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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-2002-1153	IBM Web Traffic Express Caching Proxy Server 3.6 and 4.x before 4.0.1.26 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an HTTP request to helpout.exe with a missing HTTP version number, which causes ibmproxy.exe to crash.

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 0.04265.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IY35970&apar=only
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10452.php
http://www.osvdb.org/2090
http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0007.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6002

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Ibm Websphere Caching Proxy Server

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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

Updated: 2024-08-08T03:19:27.509Z

Reserved: 2002-09-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2002-1169

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2002-11-04T05:00:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2002-1169

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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