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CVE-2002-2338
The POP3 mail client in Mozilla 1.0 and earlier, and Netscape Communicator 4.7 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of…
Medium5.0EPSS 3.9%
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- mitre
Description
The POP3 mail client in Mozilla 1.0 and earlier, and Netscape Communicator 4.7 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (no new mail) via a mail message containing a dot (.) at a newline, which is interpreted as the end of the message.
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)
- 3.9% · top 9.8% 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
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- 20020614 Another small DoS on Mozilla <= 1.0 through pop3 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20020612 Another small DoS on Mozilla <= 1.0 through pop3 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- MDKSA-2002:074 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144228 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 5002 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0.1/security-fixes-1.0.1.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- mozilla-netscape-pop3-dos(9343) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .