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CVE-2002-0601
ISS RealSecure Network Sensor 5.x through 6.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed DHCP packets that…
Medium5.0EPSS 2.5%
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- mitre
Description
ISS RealSecure Network Sensor 5.x through 6.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed DHCP packets that cause RealSecure to dereference a null pointer.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 16% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- 5165 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 20020430 Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability in RealSecure Network Sensor (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_ISSx_transferred
- rs-ns-dhcp-dos(8961) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20020430 ISS Advisory: Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability in RealSecure Network Sensor (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 4649 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .