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CVE-2002-1765

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1765 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Ximian Evolution versions 1.0.3 and 1.0.4. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a memory consumption and crash by sending an email with a malformed MIME header. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is considered medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, but only impacting availability. Despite its age, there is no known exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) and it is not listed in the KEV catalog, though it has garnered significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ximian:evolution:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ximian:evolution:1.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.63%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0163 is in the 58th 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

mail.gnome.org / archives/gnome-announce-list/2002-May/msg00020.html
Patch
online.securityfocus.com / advisories/4117
PatchVendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHBA-2002-080.html
Patch
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/9059
securityfocus.com / bid/4715
Patch