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CVE-2002-1357

35
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1357 describes a critical vulnerability affecting multiple SSH2 servers and clients, including Cisco, PuTTY, and WinSCP. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code due to improper handling of malformed packet length specifiers. With a CVSS score of 10.0, it presents a severe risk, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness and potential for future exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
12.0sCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.0s:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.0stCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.0st:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.1eCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.1e:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.1eaCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.1ea:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.1tCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:12.1t:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
9.77%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0977 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/vulnwatch/2002-q4/0110.html
securitytracker.com / id
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/10868
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5849
cert.org / advisories/CA-2002-36.html
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/389665
US Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/6405