What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2002-0741

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 8.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2002-08-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

psyBNC 2.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and resource exhaustion) by sending a PASS command with a long password argument and quickly killing the connection, which is not properly terminated by psyBNC.

Affected products

• Psychoid Psybnc: 2.3

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-04/0322.html
• http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/269131
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8912.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4570
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-04/0322.html
• http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/269131
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8912.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4570

Get alerted when CVE-2002-0741 or the next vulnerability affects your stack