CVE-2002-1663

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2002-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The Post_Method function in method.c for Monkey HTTP Daemon before 0.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a POST request with an invalid or missing Content-Length header value.

Affected products

monkey: through 0.1.1

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-11/0023.html
http://monkeyd.sourceforge.net/Changelog.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/7449
http://securitytracker.com/id?1005507
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6096
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10529
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-11/0023.html
http://monkeyd.sourceforge.net/Changelog.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/7449
http://securitytracker.com/id?1005507
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6096
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10529

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