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CVE-2002-0835

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-0835 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) servers, impacting products from vendors like Caldera, HP, and Red Hat. An unauthenticated remote attacker can crash the PXE server by sending specially crafted DHCP packets, specifically those originating from Voice-Over-IP (VOIP) phones. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with a network attack vector and low complexity, leading to a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:caldera:openlinux_server:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:caldera:openlinux_server:3.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:caldera:openlinux_workstation:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:caldera:openlinux_workstation:3.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:pre-execution_environment:0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
6.94%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0694 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 23,684 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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 (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-2002-0835Important

security flaw

Aug 30, 2002

References

ftp.caldera.com / pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-044.0.txt
online.securityfocus.com / advisories/4449
iss.net / security_center/static/10003.php
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2002-162.html
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2002-165.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/5596
ExploitVendor Advisory