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CVE-2002-2185
The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) allows local users to cause a denial of service via an IGMP membership report to a target's…
Medium4.9EPSS 2.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) allows local users to cause a denial of service via an IGMP membership report to a target's Ethernet address instead of the Multicast group address, which causes the target to stop sending reports to the router and effectively disconnect the group from the network.
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 | Medium4.9 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% 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 4.9.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (16)
- RHSA-2006:0140 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 18684 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- igmp-spoofed-report-dos(9436) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10736 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- RHSA-2006:0101 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- FLSA:157459-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FLSA:157459-4 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 5020 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20020614 IGMP denial of service vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- RHSA-2006:0190 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 18510 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FLSA:157459-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~krishna/igmp_dos/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- FLSA:157459-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- RHSA-2006:0191 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 18562 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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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