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CVE-2002-1320

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1320 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Pine email client versions 4.44 and earlier. Remote attackers can trigger a core dump and prevent the application from restarting by sending an email with an excessively long string of quotation marks in the "From" header. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, resulting in partial availability impact. While there is an ExploitDB entry for a "Heap Corruption" related to Pine 4.x "From:" headers, there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit or Nuclei modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.98CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:3.98:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:4.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:4.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:4.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:4.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
9.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-21985 · Nov 7, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0962 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 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 (8)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 6.2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.0
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 8.0
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2002-1320Moderate

security flaw

Nov 7, 2002

References

distro.conectiva.com.br / atualizacoes
marc.info
marc.info
iss.net / security_center/static/10555.php
Vendor Advisory
linux-mandrake.com / en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-084.php
linuxsecurity.com / advisories/engarde_advisory-2614.html
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2002_046_pine.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2002-270.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2002-271.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/6120
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory