CVE-2002-1169

Websphere Caching Proxy Server vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

7.1%

EPSS pct

94th

Exploited

No known

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.

Affected vendor

Ibm

Affected product

Websphere Caching Proxy Server

CVSS vector

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

Published

2002-11-04

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 7.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2002-1169

Confirm whether Ibm Websphere Caching Proxy Server is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2002-1169.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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