CVE-2002-0012

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 23.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-02-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Vulnerabilities in a large number of SNMP implementations allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or gain privileges via SNMPv1 trap handling, as demonstrated by the PROTOS c06-SNMPv1 test suite. NOTE: It is highly likely that this candidate will be SPLIT into multiple candidates, one or more for each vendor. This and other SNMP-related candidates will be updated when more accurate information is available.

Affected products

Snmp: all versions

References

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-03.html
http://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/ouspg/protos/testing/c06/snmpv1/index.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/alerts/advise110.php
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/107186
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-163.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/4211
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5043
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-006
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1048
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A144
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A161

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