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CVE-2002-1426

38
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1426 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting HP ProCurve Switch 4000M C.07.23. An unauthenticated remote attacker can crash the device by sending a specially crafted SNMP write request containing 85 characters, likely due to a buffer overflow. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating a critical impact on availability with low attack complexity and no authentication required. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, a public exploit (EDB-21657) exists, and there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
c.07.23CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:hp:procurve_switch_4000m:c.07.23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
19.68%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-21657 · Jul 27, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1968 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 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, 0.1 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2002-07/0338.html
iss.net / security_center/static/9708.php
Vendor Advisory
phenoelit.de / stuff/HP_ProCurve.txt
ExploitVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/5336
ExploitVendor Advisory