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CVE-2002-1487

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1487 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the IRC component of Trillian versions 0.73 and 0.74. Malicious IRC servers can crash affected clients by sending specific raw IRC messages (e.g., 206, 211, 302). This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, as it can be exploited remotely with low complexity and no authentication, leading to a partial impact on availability. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.74CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cerulean_studios:trillian:0.74:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
13.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-73 · Aug 1, 2003
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1364 is in the 96th 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2002-09/0268.html
ExploitVendor Advisory
iss.net / security_center/static/10161.php
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/5775
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory