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CVE-2002-0140

35
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-0140 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability, and potential arbitrary code execution, in Domain Name Relay Daemon (dnrd) versions 2.10 and earlier. Remote malicious DNS sites can trigger this by sending long or malformed DNS replies, which the software fails to handle correctly. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and potential for partial impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code for a denial-of-service attack is publicly available via ExploitDB, and the CVE has garnered significant community discussion, despite no media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dnrd:dnrd:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dnrd:dnrd:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dnrd:dnrd:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dnrd:dnrd:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dnrd:dnrd:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-21236 · Jan 20, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0353 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

online.securityfocus.com / archive/1/251619
Vendor Advisory
iss.net / security_center/static/7957.php
securityfocus.com / bid/3928