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CVE-2002-1542

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1542 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting SolarWinds TFTP Server versions 5.0.55 and earlier. Remote attackers can crash the server by sending a large UDP datagram, potentially due to a buffer overflow. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with a 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-21963) exists, and the CVE has garnered significant community discussion, suggesting awareness among security researchers.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.0.55_standardCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:tftp_server:5.0.55_standard:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
13.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-21963 · Oct 24, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1320 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 23,684 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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/2002-10/0344.html
archives.neohapsis.com / archives/vulnwatch/2002-q4/0040.html
ExploitVendor Advisory
iss.net / security_center/static/10462.php
securityfocus.com / bid/6043
ExploitVendor Advisory