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high 7.5

CVE-2002-0843 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflows in the ApacheBench benchmark support program (ab.c) in Apache before 1.3.27, and Apache 2.x before 2.0.43, allow a malicio…

published 2002-10-05 24 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2002-0835

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
21.4%
EPSS 21.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Buffer overflows in the ApacheBench benchmark support program (ab.c) in Apache before 1.3.27, and Apache 2.x before 2.0.43, allow a malicious web server to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long response.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2002-0843 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Linux 6.2 Red Hat Linux 7.0 Red Hat Linux 7.1 Red Hat Linux 7.2 Red Hat Linux 7.3 Red Hat Linux 8.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2002:222
  • Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2002:251
  • Red Hat Stronghold 3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2002:243
  • Red Hat Stronghold 4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2002:244
  • Red Hat Stronghold 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2002:248

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Exploit prediction

21.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

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

Classification

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Sources

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