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CVE-2002-1220

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1220 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting BIND versions 8.3.x through 8.3.3, including various FreeBSD and OpenBSD distributions. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending a crafted request for a non-existent subdomain containing an OPT resource record with a large UDP payload, causing the BIND service to terminate. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to partial availability impact. While not listed on the KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:8.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:8.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:8.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:8.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
9.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-22011 · Nov 12, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0960 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

bvlive01.iss.net / issEn/delivery/xforce/alertdetail.jsp
PatchVendor Advisory
lists.apple.com / archives/Security-announce/2002/Nov/msg00000.html
marc.info
marc.info
online.securityfocus.com / advisories/4999
online.securityfocus.com / archive/1/300019
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/10332
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A449
cert.org / advisories/CA-2002-31.html
US Government Resource
ciac.org / ciac/bulletins/n-013.shtml
debian.org / security/2002/dsa-196
isc.org / products/BIND/bind-security.html
PatchVendor Advisory
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/229595
US Government Resource
linux-mandrake.com / en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-077.php
securityfocus.com / bid/6161