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medium 5.0

CVE-2002-1487 json

The IRC component of Trillian 0.73 and 0.74 allows remote malicious IRC servers to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending the raw mes…

published 2003-03-18 23 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2002-1470

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
13.6%
EPSS 13.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

The IRC component of Trillian 0.73 and 0.74 allows remote malicious IRC servers to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending the raw messages (1) 206, (2) 211, (3) 213, (4) 214, (5) 215, (6) 217, (7) 218, (8) 243, (9) 302, (10) 317, (11) 324, (12) 332, (13) 333, (14) 352, and (15) 367.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-21819)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

13.64% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-21819 Trillian 0.74 - IRC Raw Messages Denial of Service dos, 2002-09-22
  • EDB-73 Trillian 0.74 - Remote Denial of Service dos, 2003-08-01
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5775 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • archives.neohapsis.com http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-09/0268.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

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