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CVE-2002-0318

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-0318 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the FreeRADIUS RADIUS server, affecting all versions of the product. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by sending a flood of Access-Request packets, leading to high CPU consumption and service disruption. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication or complex attack vectors to achieve a partial impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or inclusion in the KEV catalog, though it has garnered 10 community mentions.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freeradius:freeradius:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0145 is in the 53rd 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 freeradius on CBL Mariner 2.0
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19637-16823

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2003-Apr/CVE-2002-0318Moderate

FreeRADIUS RADIUS server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a flood of Access-Request packets.

Apr 2, 2003

References

marc.info
iss.net / security_center/static/9968.php