CVEvulnerability
CVE-2002-1169
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2002-11-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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 configurations
• ibm websphere caching proxy server 3.6
• ibm websphere caching proxy server 4.0
Related
Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)
- CWE-234 Failure to Handle Missing Parameter weakness
References
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IY35970&apar=only www-1.ibm.com
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10452.php Vendor Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/2090 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0007.txt Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6002 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IY35970&apar=only www-1.ibm.com
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10452.php Vendor Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/2090 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0007.txt Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6002 www.securityfocus.com