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CVE-2002-1967

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1967 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in XiRCON 1.0 Beta 4. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service by sending excessively long ctcp, primsg, msg, or notice commands, leading to a disconnect. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with a network attack vector, low attack complexity, and a partial impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Despite its age and lack of current exploitation, the CVE has garnered significant community discussion, with 10 mentions, primarily on GitHub.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0_beta_4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mark_hanson:xircon:1.0_beta_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
1.87%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0187 is in the 65th 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

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/vulnwatch/2002-q3/0005.html
Exploit
iss.net / security_center/static/9516.php
securityfocus.com / bid/5185