CVE-2002-2430

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-02-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

GoAhead WebServer before 2.1.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by performing a socket disconnect to terminate a request before it has been fully processed by the server.

Affected products

Goahead Webserver: through 2.1; 2.0

References

http://data.goahead.com/Software/Webserver/2.1.8/release.htm#cpu-utilization-hangs-at-100-on-a-socket-disconnect-bug01865
http://data.goahead.com/Software/Webserver/2.1.8/release.htm#cpu-utilization-hangs-at-100-on-a-socket-disconnect-bug01865

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