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CVE-2002-1357
Multiple SSH2 servers and clients do not properly handle packets or data elements with incorrect length specifiers, which may allow remote…
High10.0EPSS 9.8%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Multiple SSH2 servers and clients do not properly handle packets or data elements with incorrect length specifiers, which may allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code, as demonstrated by the SSHredder SSH protocol test suite.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 days later
· 3 days later
Published
- 22 years later
· 22 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 9.8% · top 4.4% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (8)
- 1005812 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- CA-2002-36 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5849 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- VU#389665 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- ssh-transport-length-bo(10868) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20021216 R7-0009: Vulnerabilities in SSH2 Implementations from Multiple Vendors (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCHx_transferred
- 6405 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1005813 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_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)
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