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CVE-2002-1169

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2002-11-04 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

IBM Web Traffic Express Caching Proxy Server 3.6 and 4.x before 4.0.1.26 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an HTTP request to helpout.exe with a missing HTTP version number, which causes ibmproxy.exe to crash.

Affected products

• IBM Websphere Caching Proxy Server: 3.6, 4.0

References

• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IY35970&apar=only
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10452.php
• http://www.osvdb.org/2090
• http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0007.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6002
• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IY35970&apar=only
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10452.php
• http://www.osvdb.org/2090
• http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0007.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6002

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