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CVE-2002-1024

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1024 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cisco IOS versions 12.0 through 12.2, as well as Cisco CatOS, CSS11000, and PIX Firewall software, when SSH is enabled. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending a large, specially crafted packet, leveraging a previous SSH CRC32 attack detection overflow to consume excessive CPU resources. With a CVSS score of 7.1, this vulnerability is considered high severity due to its network-based attack vector, medium attack complexity, and high impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
12.0sCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.0s:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.0spCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.0sp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.0stCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.0st:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.0xbCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.0xb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.0xmCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.0xm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.1HIGH

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0330 is in the 46th percentile among its peer group of 8,914 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

cisco.com / warp/public/707/SSH-scanning.shtml
iss.net / security_center/static/9437.php
PatchVendor Advisory
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/290140
US Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/5114
PatchVendor Advisory