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CVE-2002-1362

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1362 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in mICQ version 0.4.9 and earlier, affecting the matthew_smith micq product. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash the application by sending malformed ICQ messages lacking a 0xFE separator character. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there known public exploits in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, though it has received some community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:matthew_smith:micq:0.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.4.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:matthew_smith:micq:0.4.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.4.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:matthew_smith:micq:0.4.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.4.9.2bCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:matthew_smith:micq:0.4.9.2b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.4.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:matthew_smith:micq:0.4.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.67%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0167 is in the 59th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2002-1362

security flaw

Nov 3, 2002

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/10872
debian.org / security/2002/dsa-211
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2003-118.html
securityfocus.com / bid/6392