Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-2308

Title: Netscape Communicator recursive META refresh tag DoS

Denial of Service

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2002-2308.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Dec 31, 2002

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.48%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2002-2308: Netscape Communicator 6.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service in client browsers via a webpage containing a recursive META refresh tag where the content tag is blank and the URL tag references itself.

Impacted Vendors

netscape 1

Reference Links

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2002-July/000600.html http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9645.php http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2002-July/000600.html http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9645.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-2002-2308 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.

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.