CVE-2002-1018 — The library feature for Adobe Content Server 3.0 does not verify if a customer has already checked out an eBook, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by checking out the same book multiple times

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The library feature for Adobe Content Server 3.0 does not verify if a customer has already checked out an eBook, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by checking out the same book multiple times

Published Aug 31, 2002

5.0

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 2.47%

Description

The library feature for Adobe Content Server 3.0 does not verify if a customer has already checked out an eBook, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by checking out the same book multiple times.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

2.47% 0.02473

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.02473

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (11 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	2.47% (0.02473)	83.95th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	2.47% (0.02473)	82.39th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	1.39% (0.01387)	79.03th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.86% (0.00857)	82.97th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 8, 2024	0.86% (0.00857)	81.97th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 29, 2023	0.86% (0.00857)	79.97th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.81% (0.00813)	79.15th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.14% (0.01136)	59.45th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Oct 18, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	58.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	56.27th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	34.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q3/0020.html
mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCHVendor Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=102649215618643&w=2
mailing-listx_refsource_VULN-DEV
http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=102650064028760&w=2
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Link	Providers	Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q3/0020.html		mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCHVendor Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=102649215618643&w=2		mailing-listx_refsource_VULN-DEV
http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=102650064028760&w=2		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Aug 31, 2002

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved Aug 27, 2002

Link CVE-2002-1018

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2002-1018

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2002-1018