Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2002-1214 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in Microsoft PPTP Service on Windows XP and Windows 2000 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) and po…

published 2002-10-28 24 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2002-1198

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
49.9%
EPSS 49.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Metasploit

Summary

Buffer overflow in Microsoft PPTP Service on Windows XP and Windows 2000 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a certain PPTP packet with malformed control data.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit auxiliary/dos/pptp/ms02_063_pptp_dos)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

49.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.