CVE-2002-1866

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Simple Web Server (SWS) 0.0.4 through 0.1.0 does not close file descriptors for 404 error messages, which could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor exhaustion) via multiple requests for pages that do not exist.

Affected products

Sws Simple Web Server: 0.0.3, 0.0.4, 0.1.0, 0.1.1

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-09/0047.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10071.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5659
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-09/0047.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10071.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5659

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