CVE-2002-1663 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Monkey HTTP Daemon versions prior to 0.5.1. An attacker can crash the server by sending a POST request with an invalid or missing Content-Length header. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, resulting in a partial availability impact. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code exists (EDB-21981), and the CVE has garnered significant community discussion, though no active exploitation or media coverage has been observed.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:monkey-project:monkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.