CVE-2002-0013 — Vulnerabilities in the SNMPv1 request handling of a large number of SNMP impleme

Vulnerabilities in the SNMPv1 request handling of a large number of SNMP implementations allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or gain privileges via (1) GetRequest, (2) GetNextRequest, and (3) SetRequest messages, as demonstrated by the PROTOS c06-SNMPv1 test suite

01What is this vulnerability?

Vulnerabilities in the SNMPv1 request handling of a large number of SNMP implementations allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or gain privileges via (1) GetRequest, (2) GetNextRequest, and (3) SetRequest messages, as demonstrated by the PROTOS c06-SNMPv1 test suite. NOTE: It is highly likely that this candidate will be SPLIT into multiple candidates, one or more for each vendor…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2002-02-18T05:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-08T02:35:17.389Z

09References

• www.redhat.com — http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-163.html
• sunsolve.sun.com — http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57404-1
• docs.microsoft.com — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-00…
• oval.cisecurity.org — https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3…
• www.cert.org — http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-03.html
• www.ee.oulu.fi — http://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/ouspg/protos/testing/c06/snmpv1/index.html
• oval.cisecurity.org — https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3…
• www.kb.cert.org — http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/854306
• www.iss.net — http://www.iss.net/security_center/alerts/advise110.php