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CVE-2002-0818

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-0818 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in wwwoffled, a component of the World Wide Web Offline Explorer (WWWOFFLE). Remote attackers can exploit this flaw by sending a negative Content-Length value, potentially leading to a denial of service and arbitrary code execution. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity with a network attack vector and low attack complexity, allowing for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, it has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.

Impacted Technologies

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

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
4.05%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0405 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 51,455 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 (1)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

ftp.caldera.com / pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-048.0.txt
archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2002-07/0194.html
marc.info
debian.org / security/2002/dsa-144
PatchVendor Advisory
iss.net / security_center/static/9619.php
securityfocus.com / bid/5260