CVE-2002-2325 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the c-client library, specifically affecting Pine email client versions 4.20 through 4.44. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash a client by sending a specially crafted MIME-encoded email with an empty boundary field in the Content-Type header. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8, indicating high severity, with a network attack vector and low attack complexity, leading to a complete loss of availability. Despite its age, its FAUCET Risk Score of 90/100 suggests a significant potential impact if exploited. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are minimal, which is typical for a vulnerability of this age.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.20CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:4.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.21CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:4.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.30CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:4.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.33CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:4.33:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.44CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:4.44:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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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 records are not available for this CVE.