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CVE-2002-0713

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-0713 describes buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Squid versions prior to 2.4.STABLE6. These flaws, found in the MSNT auth helper, gopher client, and FTP server directory listing parser, could lead to a denial of service or potentially arbitrary code execution. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered highly severe, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to exploit it with low complexity, potentially impacting confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there are no known public exploits or Metasploit modules, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness and potential for future exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.4.stable6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid:squid:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
5.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0554 is in the 86th 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 6.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.0
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2002-0713Important

security flaw

Jul 3, 2002

References

ftp.caldera.com / pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-046.0.txt
marc.info
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2002-051.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2002-130.html
PatchVendor Advisory
iss.net / security_center/static/9480.php
iss.net / security_center/static/9481.php
iss.net / security_center/static/9482.php
linux-mandrake.com / en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-044.php
Patch
securityfocus.com / bid/5155
securityfocus.com / bid/5156
securityfocus.com / bid/5157
squid-cache.org / Advisories/SQUID-2002_3.txt
PatchVendor Advisory
squid-cache.org / Versions/v2/2.4/bugs
Patch