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CVE-2002-1945

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1945 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in SmartMail Server 1.0 Beta 10. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger a denial of service by sending an excessively long request to either the SMTP (port 25) or POP3 (port 110) services, causing the server to crash. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity. It is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a complete loss of availability for the affected service. While not listed on the KEV catalog or Hot List, an exploit demonstrating a denial of service is available on ExploitDB. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and the vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0_beta_10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:virtualzone:smartmail_server:1.0_beta_10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-21973 · Oct 31, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0333 is in the 83rd 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/2002-10/0418.html
Exploit
iss.net / security_center/static/10512.php
securityfocus.com / bid/6075
Exploit