MEDIUM
IBM AIX 4.3.3 and AIX 5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a flood of malformed TCP packets without any flags set, which prevents AIX from releasing the associated memory buffers
Published Oct 15, 2002
5.0
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 2.10%
Description
IBM AIX 4.3.3 and AIX 5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a flood of malformed TCP packets without any flags set, which prevents AIX from releasing the associated memory buffers.
Affected products
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
5.0 MEDIUM NVD
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
2.10% 0.02099
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.02099
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 (10 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 2.10% (0.02099) | 81.01th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 2.10% (0.02099) | 79.21th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 1.33% (0.01330) | 78.61th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 5.13% (0.05127) | 93.25th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Aug 13, 2023 | 5.13% (0.05127) | 91.96th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 3.53% (0.03533) | 90.12th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.21% (0.01213) | 66.61th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 17, 2023 | 1.21% (0.01213) | 66.22th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 1.21% (0.01213) | 64.21th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 1.21% (0.01213) | 40.54th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (0)
No CWE recorded.
References (5)
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103418410408599&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q=IY31641&uid=isg1IY31641&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&cc=us&lang=en vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10326.php vdb-entryx_refsource_XFVendor Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/102345 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5925 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103418410408599&w=2 | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ | |
| http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q=IY31641&uid=isg1IY31641&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&cc=us&lang=en | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR | |
| http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10326.php | vdb-entryx_refsource_XFVendor Advisory | |
| http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/102345 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5925 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Oct 15, 2002
Updated Aug 8, 2024
Reserved Oct 11, 2002
Link CVE-2002-1201
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a