Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-1881

Title: Macromedia Flash Player malformed content crash DoS

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2002-1881.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Dec 31, 2002

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.68%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2002-1881: Macromedia Flash Player 4.0 r12 through 6.0.47.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (web browser crash) via malformed content in a Flash Shockwave (.SWF) file, as demonstrated by by ROT13 encoding the body of the file but not the headers.

Impacted Vendors

macromedia 1

gnu 1

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-08/0088.html http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9843.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5445 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-08/0088.html http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9843.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5445

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-2002-1881 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.

December 31, 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.