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CVE-2002-0914

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-0914 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Double Precision Courier e-mail MTA. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending a message containing an extremely large or negative year value, leading to excessive CPU consumption due to a tight loop. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.38.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:double_precision_incorporated:courier_mta:0.38.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.68%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0168 is in the 60th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

sourceforge.net / project/shownotes.php
iss.net / security_center/static/9228.php
PatchVendor Advisory
osvdb.org / 5052
securityfocus.com / bid/4908
Vendor Advisory