CVE-2002-2025

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Lotus Domino server 5.0.9a and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by exhausting the number of working threads via a large number of HTTP requests for (1) an MS-DOS device name and (2) an MS-DOS device name with a large number of characters appended to the device name.

Affected products

IBM Lotus Domino Server: 4.6.1, 4.6.3, 4.6.4, 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2 (+8)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q1/0037.html
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/r5fixlist.nsf/5c087391999d06e7852569280062619d/945e97608fda942a85256b37007905b1?OpenDocument&Highlight=0%2CJCHN547JWV
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/r5fixlist.nsf/5c087391999d06e7852569280062619d/a77f8a5132cce70085256b8000792112?OpenDocument&Highlight=0%2CJCHN4UMKLA
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/253830
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4019
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4020
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q1/0037.html
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/r5fixlist.nsf/5c087391999d06e7852569280062619d/945e97608fda942a85256b37007905b1?OpenDocument&Highlight=0%2CJCHN547JWV
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/r5fixlist.nsf/5c087391999d06e7852569280062619d/a77f8a5132cce70085256b8000792112?OpenDocument&Highlight=0%2CJCHN4UMKLA
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/253830
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4019
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4020

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