Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-0957

Title: BlackICE Agent high tcp.maxconnections setting DoS

Denial of Service

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2002-0957.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Oct 04, 2002

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.66%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2002-0957: The default configuration of BlackICE Agent 3.1.eal and 3.1.ebh has a high tcp.maxconnections setting, which could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of connections to the BlackICE system that consumes more resources than intended by the user.

Impacted Vendors

iss 1

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q2/0114.html http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9405.php http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q2/0114.html http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9405.php

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-2002-0957 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 04, 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.