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CVE-2002-0053

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 35.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-03-08 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in SNMP agent service in Windows 95/98/98SE, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows XP allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via a malformed management request. NOTE: this candidate may be split or merged with other candidates. This and other PROTOS-related candidates, especially CVE-2002-0012 and CVE-2002-0013, will be updated when more accurate information is available.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 95: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 98: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 98Se: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Nt: 4.0
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions

References

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2002-0012
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2002-0013
• http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-03.html
• http://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/ouspg/protos/testing/c06/snmpv1/index.html
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/107186
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/854306
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-006
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A209
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A402
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2002-0012
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2002-0013
• http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-03.html

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