CVE-2002-1359 describes a critical buffer overflow 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 by sending malformed, oversized packets or fields. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not on the CISA KEV catalog, exploit intelligence confirms the existence of Metasploit modules and ExploitDB entries specifically targeting PuTTY, indicating readily available exploit code. Despite its age and high severity, there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.