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CVE-2002-1501

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1501 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Enterasys SSR8000 Smart Switch Routers running firmware versions prior to 8.3.0.10. An attacker can crash the device by sending multiple port scans to ports 15077 and 15078, leveraging a flaw in the MPS functionality. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and no authentication required, resulting in partial availability impact. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB. Despite the available exploit, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and the vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
e8.2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:enterasys:smartswitch_ssr8000:e8.2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
e8.3.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:enterasys:smartswitch_ssr8000:e8.3.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
6.96%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-21791 · Sep 13, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0696 is in the 91st 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

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2002-09/0141.html
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
enterasys.com / support/techtips/tk0659-9.html
Vendor Advisory
iss.net / security_center/static/10096.php
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/5703
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory