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CVE-2002-1625
Macromedia Flash Player 6 does not terminate connections when the user leaves the web page, which allows remote attackers to cause a…
Medium5.0EPSS 2.0%
- Published
- Updated
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- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Macromedia Flash Player 6 does not terminate connections when the user leaves the web page, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bandwidth, resource, and CPU consumption) via the (1) loadMovie or (2) loadSound commands, which continue to execute until the browser is closed.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 19% 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: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- 4567 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- flash-activex-plugin-dos(8925) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- VU#128491 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=22796&Method=Full&Title=Macromedia%20Flash%20Player%206%20Streaming%20Issue&Cache=False (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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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