PT-2002-2553 · Microsoft · Msn Messenger Service

Published 2002-12-31 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2002-1831

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft MSN Messenger Service versions 1.0 through 4.6

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash, by sending an invite request with hex-encoded spaces (%20) in the Invitation-Cookie field.

Recommendations For Microsoft MSN Messenger Service versions 1.0 through 4.6, consider restricting access to the Invitation-Cookie field to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2002-1831

Affected Products

Msn Messenger Service

References · 5

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/4827 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/21481 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-1831 · Security Note
• http://iss.net/security_center/static/9161.php · Note
• http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/274086 · Note