CVE Catalog

CVE-2002-0142

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The CGI handler in John Roy Pi3Web for Windows 2.0 beta 1 and 2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a series of requests whose physical path is exactly 260 characters long and ends in a series of . (dot) characters.

Risk Assessment

Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to remotely crash the service, potentially leading to application downtime and loss of availability for users.

Recommendation

It is recommended to upgrade to the latest version of the software that addresses this vulnerability and to monitor logs for potential attack attempts.

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Original NVD description (English source)

CGI handler in John Roy Pi3Web for Windows 2.0 beta 1 and 2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a series of requests whose physical path is exactly 260 characters long and ends in a series of . (dot) characters.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS