Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-0533

Title: phpBB null characters in [code] tags CPU consumption DoS

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2002-0533.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Aug 12, 2002

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.80%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2002-0533: phpBB 1.4.4 and earlier with BBcode allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) and corrupt the database via null \0 characters within [code] tags.

Impacted Vendors

phpbb_group 1

phpbb 1

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q2/0005.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101794993119738&w=2 http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/265798 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8764.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4432 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4434 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q2/0005.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101794993119738&w=2 http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/265798 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8764.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4432 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4434

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2002-0533 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 12, 2002 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.