CVE-2002-1140

Services vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

13.9%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

The Sun Microsystems RPC library Services for Unix 3.0 Interix SD, as implemented on Microsoft Windows NT4, 2000, and XP, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service hang) via malformed packet fragments, aka "Improper parameter size check leading to denial of service."

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Services

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Published

2002-10-11

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 13.9% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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