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CVE-2002-1488

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1488 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the IRC component of Trillian versions 0.73 and 0.74. Remote malicious IRC servers can crash affected clients by sending a malformed PART message, either missing a channel or referencing a channel the user is not in. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a partial availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild (no KEV entry), a public exploit (EDB-21821) exists, 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
2.98%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-21821 · Sep 22, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0298 is in the 80th 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

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2002-09/0268.html
ExploitVendor Advisory
iss.net / security_center/static/10162.php
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/5776
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory